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Obesity
New findings from Macquarie University in the area of obesity published
May 27th, 2008
"Medical narratives surrounding the Western ''obesity epidemic'' have generated greater fears of ''fatness'' that have permeated Western collective consciousness, and these anxieties have manifested themselves as a moral panic. The medicalization of fatness via the establishment of the disease of ''obesity'' has necessarily entailed a combining of medical narratives/imperatives and historico-cultural discursive formations of fatness as a moral failing and as an aesthetic affront," scientists in Sydney, Australia report. "The threat that this epidemic poses is framed by medical discourse not simply as endangering health, but fraying the very (moral) fabric of society. In...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-27)
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