Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media

How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new perspectives on media representations of obesity and eating disorders, with analyses of print, online, and televisual media framings.

Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media, Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek; Part I Rhetorics of Abjection and Alarm; Chapter 2 Alarming Engagements? Exploring Pro-Anorexia Websites in/and the Media, Anna Lavis; Chapter 3 Obesity in the US Media, 1990-2011: Broad Strokes, Broad Consequences, Natalie C. Boero; Chapter 4 Invisible Fat: The Aesthetics of Food and the Body, Pino Donghi, Josephine Wennerholm; Chapter 5 From Abject Eating to Abject Being: Representations of Obesity in 'Supersize vs. Superskinny', Karin Eli, Anna Lavis; Part II Representations of Science and Policy; Chapter 6 Mothers as Smoking Guns: Fetal Overnutrition and the Reproduction of Obesity, Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic, Vivienne Moore, Michael Davies; Chapter 7 Eating Disorders in the Media: The Changing Nature of UK Newspaper Reports, Emily Shepherd, Clive Seale; Chapter 8 Making the 'Obesity Epidemic': The Role of Science and the News Media, Abigail C. Saguy, Rene Almeling; Chapter 9 Obesity, Government and the Media, Stanley Ulijaszek; Chapter 10 Heavy Viewing: Emergent Frames in Contemporary News Coverage of Obesity, Helene A. Shugart;