Differences by degree: Fatness, contagion and pre-emption

Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 117-129

  Brown, Tim ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contagion; critical obesity studies; metaphor; obesity; pre emption

Indexed keywords

CONTAGION;

ARTICLE; CRITICAL OBESITY STUDIES; HUMAN; LITERATURE; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PRE-EMPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CONTAGION; CRITICAL OBESITY STUDIES; METAPHOR; OBESITY; PRE-EMPTION;

HUMANS; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84894677764     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459313480971     Document Type: Article

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