Opening Up the Black Box of the Body in Geographical Obesity Research: Toward a Critical Political Ecology of Fat

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 951-957

  Guthman, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental toxins; obesity; obesogenic environments; political ecology; science studies

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84864564102     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.659635     Document Type: Article

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