The Real War on Obesity Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis /

• Main Author: Boswell, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Comparative politics.; Great Britain > Politics and government.; Public health.; Sociology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Sociology, general.; British Politics.; Comparative Politics.

This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documen...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introducing the real ‘war on obesity’
• Part I. Problem definition
• Chapter 2. Debating individual agency
• Chapter 3. Defining the scope
• Chapter 4. Disputing the problem
• Part II. Policy engagement
• Chapter 5. Representing knowledge
• Chapter 6. Claiming knowledge
• Chapter 7. Contesting knowledge
• Chapter 8. Transmitting knowledge
• Chapter 9. Conclusion. .