Doctor’s orders: Diagnosis, medical authority and the exploitation of the fat body

Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies

Volumn 9780203882061, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-77

  Jutel, Annemarie ^a  

^a OTAGO POLYTECHNIC   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203882061     Document Type: Chapter

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