Re-evaluating the weight-centered approach toward health: The need for a paradigm shift

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 229-254

  Cogan, Jeanine C ^a  

^a AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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