Doing more good than harm? The absent presence of children’s bodies in (anti-)obesity policy

Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-138

  Evans, Bethan ^a   Colls, Rachel ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84994338404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230304239     Document Type: Chapter

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