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Obesity / Evelyn B. Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Evelyn B., author.
- Series:
- Health and medical issues today.
- Health and medical issues today
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book explores what obesity is, its causes and implications for health, and the many issues and controversies surrounding it, both in the medical community and society as a whole. This edition offers expanded coverage of genetic and hormonal causes of obesity, and medications and surgical techniques to manage obesity. Includes expanded scientific understanding of obesity and delves into medical and societal debates about weight that have emerged in recent years.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Overview and background information
- pkt. II. Issues and controversies
- pt. III. Scenarios.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9798400692550
- 9798216124207
- 9781440858826
- 1440858829
- OCLC:
- 1013528261
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400692550
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