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Weighing the Evidence

by Michael Bader | August 22, 2014 | Summer 2014

Sociologist Michael Bader reviews two books, Fat Chance and What’s Wrong with Fat?, that hope to reshape the debate about obesity in America.

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Michael Bader is in the sociology department and Center on Health, Risk, and Society at American University, where he studies neighborhood change and the health impacts of inequality.

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