Biopower, biopedagogies and the obesity epidemic

Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Wright, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 84921374230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203882061     Document Type: Chapter

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