Leaps of faith in the obesity debate: A cautionary note for policy note for policy-makers

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 493-500

  Botterill, Linda Courtenay ^a  

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Author keywords

Collective action; Obesity; Public policy; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847662038     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00822.x     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Although 'overweight' is used as an adjective in general usage, it is employed as a noun in the obesity literature.
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8. Rose, The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, p. 12.
9. Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1965, p. 134.
10. Paul Campos, 'The big fat con story', The Guardian, 24 April 2004.
11. James O. Hill, Holly R. Wyatt, George W. Reed and John C. Peters, 'Obesity and the environment: Where do we go from here?' Science, vol. 299, 2003, p. 855.
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13. Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, 'Moral panics: culture, politics and social construction', Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 20, 1994, pp. 149-74.