871769042     

9871769040                        

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London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (191 p)

Englisch

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Raisborough, Jayne : Fat Bodies, Health and the Media. - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2016

978-1-137-28886-8

978-1-137-28886-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-137-28887-5 ( : 178.57 (NL),133.93 (3U),89.29 (1U))

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H1-970.9

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Human body-Social aspects

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: Fat, the Media, and a Fat Sensibility -- Why the Media Matters: Health Literacies and Stigma -- Reality Representations -- Apprehending Obesity: Focusing on Fat -- Working with Sensibility: Relating Representations to Subjecthood -- A Fat Sensibility -- How the Book Is Organized -- Dear Reader: A Personal Note on Language -- Part I: Dramatis Personae: Introducing Fat, Health and Mass Media -- 2: The Matter of Fat -- Introduction -- Fat Past -- Fat as Thing -- Fat as Repository -- The Middle Classes

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Preparing Fat to Meet Health: Statistics and Scales -- Scales -- From Guilty Glands to Deviant Addicts -- Fat Becomes Common Sense -- Lifestyled Health -- When Fat Meets Lifestyled Health -- Summary -- 3: Fat Gets Melodramatic: The Obesity Epidemic and the News -- Introduction -- What is an Epidemic? -- Turning Fat into Big Numbers -- The 'Postmodern' Epidemic and Epidemiological Imagination -- A Recipe for Melodrama: Epidemics and the News Media -- Obese News: Bellies, Butts, and Benevolence -- A Shift to Benevolent Representations? -- Summary