Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
Un pódcast de Oxford University
194 Episodo
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Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Emotions in international food law
Publicado: 30/4/2024 -
Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking
Publicado: 30/4/2024 -
Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship
Publicado: 30/4/2024 -
Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India
Publicado: 30/4/2024 -
Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
Publicado: 15/12/2023 -
From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world
Publicado: 15/12/2023 -
Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating
Publicado: 15/12/2023 -
Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries
Publicado: 15/12/2023 -
Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences
Publicado: 22/10/2021 -
The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States
Publicado: 22/10/2021
The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.