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'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy

Evans, B.

Authors

B. Evans



Abstract

In many countries, obesity is high on public health policy agendas, and geographical research has begun to engage with obesity. However, obesity is a highly contested term, and recent debates about geographers' engagement with policy, and critical discussions of the presence of bodies in medical geography, bear great relevance for developing a critical perspective on dominant 'obesity discourse'. Through a critical reading of a recent UK policy document, this paper considers the presence of bodies in (anti)obesity campaigns, calling for a more critical approach to the medicalization of body size to be central to future geographical work on obesity.

Citation

Evans, B. (2006). 'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy. Area, 38(3), 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00692.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Sep 1, 2006
Deposit Date Mar 24, 2010
Journal Area
Print ISSN 0004-0894
Electronic ISSN 1475-4762
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 38
Issue 3
Pages 259-267
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00692.x
Keywords United Kingdom, Critical geography, Obesity, Policy, Bodies, Medical geography.