Is A Weight-Centred Health Framework Salutogenic? Some Thoughts on Unhinging Certain Dietary Ideologies

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-340

  Aphramor, Lucy ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dietetics; fatness; health promotion; ethics; obesity; oppression; shame; social justice; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947431781     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700059     Document Type: Review

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