Eileen P. Anderson-Fye directs the Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Initiative at Case Western Reserve University, where she also is an associate professor of bioethics and the leader of the Medicine, Society and Culture track of the School of Medicine's bioethics master's degree program. Alexandra Brewis is a President's Professor Emeritus and a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University, where she also co-leads the translational Mayo Clinic-ASU Obesity Solutions initiative and serves as associate vice president of Social Sciences.
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A valuable contribution to both the anthropology of obesity and body capital theory. The volume's inclusion of non-US contexts and understudied groups is highly welcome, as are the rigorous theoretical and methodological approaches used. --Journal of Anthropological Research