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Author Mitchinson, Wendy, author.

Title Fighting fat : Canada, 1920-1980 / Wendy Mitchinson.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 433 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Nutrition Policy: "Dietetic Missionaries"; 2 About Obesity; 3 Causes of Obesity; 4 Treatment: "Stubbornly Resistant"; 5 "Dietary Drugland" and Surgery; 6 Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity; 7 Body Image; 8 Narratives of Fat Canadians; Epilogue; Notes on Sources; Journal Abbreviations; Notes; Index
Summary Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Obesity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Obesity.
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Discrimination against overweight persons -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination against overweight persons.
Obesity -- Canada -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Psychological aspects.
Obesity -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Overweight persons -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Overweight persons -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Canada.
Obesity -- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Overweight persons.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Social conditions.
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
Obesity -- Psychological aspects.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Mitchinson, Wendy. Fighting fat. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 1487522746 (OCoLC)1007921538
ISBN 9781487518264 (electronic book)
1487518269 (electronic book)
1487522746
9781487522742
9781487503574
1487503571

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