Obesity epidemic entrepreneurs: Types, practices and interests

Body and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 37-71

  Monaghan, Lee F ^a   Hollands, Robert ^b   Prtichard, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial self; Fatness; Moral entrepreneurs; Moral panic; Obesity; The body

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954636443     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X10364769     Document Type: Article

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