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Weighting for Health: Management, Measurement and Self-surveillance in the Modern Household

Histories of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine emphasise the rise of professional and scientific authority, and suggest a decline in domestic health initiatives. Exploring the example of weight management in Britain, we argue that domestic agency persisted and that new regimes of...

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Autores principales: Bivins, Roberta, Marland, Hilary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkw015