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8%OFFDeborah McPhail - Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970 - 9781442612723 - V9781442612723
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Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970

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Description for Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970 Paperback. Contouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSJ; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period.

Contours of the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others. She reveals how the articulation of obesity contributed to the Canadian colonial project in the North; where Indigenous peoples were ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442612723
SKU
V9781442612723
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About Deborah McPhail
Deborah McPhail is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba

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