An impossible task? Preventing disordered eating in the context of the current obesity panic

Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-107

  Beausoleil, Natalie ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

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EID: 84921348526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203882061     Document Type: Chapter

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