Quest for a cause: The fat gene, the gay gene, and the new eugenics

The Fat Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-74

  LeBesco, Kathleen ^a  

^a MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

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