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Obesity in 2020. Three Scenarios on Techno-Socio-Ethical Co-Evolution.

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Abstract

In Chapters 3 and 4 we sketched the current, tension-ridden, constellation around obesity. We saw how three discourses, connected to specific practices and artefacts, competed for hegemony in defining the problem, its causes, its solutions and the main-actors. In this way, each discourse allotted (primary) responsibility for solving the problem to other parties: the obese individual, the state or the physician, as we showed in the previous chapter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGenomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities
EditorsM. Korthals
Place of PublicationDordrecht
PublisherSpringer
Pages97-112
Number of pages16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2011

Publication series

SeriesThe International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Volume18
ISSN1570-3010

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