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Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives (Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Alexandra A. Brewis is a health book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives (Studies in Medical Anthropology) about?
In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condit
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Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Alexandra A. Brewis
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813581408
- Category
- health
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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