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Title Obesity, eating disorders and the media / [edited] by Karin Eli and Stanley Ulijaszek.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new perspectives on media representations of obesity and eating disorders, with analyses of print, online, and televisual media framings.
Contents 1. Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media / Stanley Ulijaszek -- pt. I RHETORICS OF ABJECTION AND ALARM -- 2. Alarming Engagements? Exploring Pro-Anorexia Websites in/and the Media / Anna Lavis -- 3. Obesity in the US Media, 1990 -- 2011: Broad Strokes, Broad Consequences / Natalie C. Boero -- 4. Invisible Fat: The Aesthetics of Food and the Body / Josephine Wennerholm -- 5. From Abject Eating to Abject Being: Representations of Obesity in 'Supersize vs. Superskinny' / Anna Lavis -- pt. II REPRESENTATIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLICY -- 6. Mothers as Smoking Guns: Fetal Overnutrition and the Reproduction of Obesity / Michael Davies -- 7. Eating Disorders in the Media: The Changing Nature of UK Newspaper Reports / Clive Seale -- 8. Making the 'Obesity Epidemic': The Role of Science and the News Media / Rene Almeling -- 9. Obesity, Government and the Media / Stanley Ulijaszek -- 10. Heavy Viewing: Emergent Frames in Contemporary News Coverage of Obesity / Helena A. Shugart.
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Subject Obesity in mass media.
Obesity in mass media.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Eating disorders -- Social aspects.
Eating disorders -- Social aspects.
Eating disorders.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Karin, Eli, editor.
Ulijaszek, Stanley J., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Obesity, eating disorders and the media 9781409457718 (DLC) 2014015813 (OCoLC)879468621
ISBN 9781409457725 (electronic book)
1409457729 (electronic book)
9781409457718
1409457710
9781472404688 (epub)