The weight of obesity : hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala /

A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss-but much goes awry as...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Yates-Doerr, Emily, 1978- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2015]
シリーズ:California studies in food and culture ; 57.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1963273
目次:
  • Introduction : the richness of eating
  • Disease of modernities
  • Nutritional black-boxing
  • Care of the social
  • Contemporary body counts
  • Bodies in balance
  • Many values of health
  • Conclusion : the opposite of obesity : re-forming the body in global health.