'Gluttony or sloth': Critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy

Area

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-267

  Evans, Bethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodies; Critical geography; Medical geography; Obesity; Policy; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

SLOTHS;

EID: 33749005920     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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