Health education's fascist tendencies: A cautionary exposition

Critical Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 132-142

  Fitzpatrick, Katie ^a   Tinning, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

health education; health fascism; healthism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; OBESITY; POLITICS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84897042563     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2013.836590     Document Type: Article

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