Description: Further DetailsTitle: Childhood Obesity in AmericaCondition: NewEAN: 9780674281448ISBN: 9780674281448Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/09/2014Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Laura DawesLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Biography of an EpidemicISBN-10: 0674281446Description: A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem facing American children today.Excess weight was once thought to be something children outgrew, or even a safeguard against infectious disease. But by the mid-twentieth century, researchers recognized early obesity as an indicator of lifelong troubles. Debates about its causes and proper treatment multiplied. Over the century, fat children were injected with animal glands, psychoanalyzed, given amphetamines, and sent to fat camp. In recent decades, an emphasis on taking personal responsibility for one’s health, combined with commercial interests, has affected the way the public health establishment has responded to childhood obesity—and the stigma fat children face. At variance with this personal emphasis is the realization that societal factors, including fast food, unsafe neighborhoods, and marketing targeted at children, are strongly implicated in weight gain. Activists and the courts are the most recent players in the obesity epidemic’s biography.Today, obesity in this age group is seen as a complex condition, with metabolic, endocrine, genetic, psychological, and social elements. Laura Dawes makes a powerful case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective health policy.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: MedicineTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Childhood Obesity in America
Title: Childhood Obesity in America
EAN: 9780674281448
ISBN: 9780674281448
Release Date: 06/09/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Biography of an Epidemic
ISBN-10: 0674281446
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Childhood Obesity in America : Biography of an Epidemic
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Pediatrics, Health Care Delivery, History, Children's Health, Bariatrics
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Health & Fitness, Medical
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Laura Dawes
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
