The politics of pathology: How obesity became an epidemic disease

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 611-627

  Oliver, J Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 33750336215     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2006.0062     Document Type: Review

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