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Fat Panic! The “Obesity Epidemic” as Moral Panic
Unformatted Document Text:  Fat Panic! The “Obesity Epidemic” as Moral Panic Abigail C. Saguy * Rene Almeling ** * Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Sociology. This research is part of a larger project that has been funded by a post-doctoral fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program in Health Policy Research, the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (run jointly by American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation), the UCLA Sociology Department, three UCLA Senate Grants, and by the UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Jeanine Yang provided invaluable research assistance. This paper benefited from conversations with Paul Campos, Steve Clayman, Steve Epstein, Barry Glassner, Darnell Hunt, Eric Oliver, Kevin Riley, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bill Roy, Dotan Saguy, Mark Schlesinger, Charles W. Smith, Megan Sweeney, Marilyn Wann and Bruce Western. Thanks to the showmethedata listserv for stimulating discussions of obesity research. Correspondence can be sent to ## email not listed ##. ** Ph.D Candidate, UCLA Department of Sociology.

Authors: Saguy, Abigail. and Almeling, Rene.
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Fat Panic!
The “Obesity Epidemic” as Moral Panic
Abigail C. Saguy
*
Rene Almeling
**
*
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Sociology. This research is part of a larger project that has been funded
by a post-doctoral fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program in Health Policy Research, the
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (run jointly by American Sociological Association and the National
Science Foundation), the UCLA Sociology Department, three UCLA Senate Grants, and by the UCLA Graduate
Summer Research Mentorship Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Jeanine Yang provided invaluable
research assistance. This paper benefited from conversations with Paul Campos, Steve Clayman, Steve Epstein,
Barry Glassner, Darnell Hunt, Eric Oliver, Kevin Riley, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bill Roy, Dotan Saguy, Mark
Schlesinger, Charles W. Smith, Megan Sweeney, Marilyn Wann and Bruce Western. Thanks to the showmethedata
listserv for stimulating discussions of obesity research. Correspondence can be sent to ## email not listed ##.
**
Ph.D Candidate, UCLA Department of Sociology.


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