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Title: Dr. Job Title: Innogen Research Fellow Tel: +44 (0)131 650 9106 Fax: +44 (0)131 651 4278 Email: i.fletcher@ed.ac.uk Building: ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh, Old Surgeon's Hall, High School Yards, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ Room Number: 2.01
Book ChapterFletcher, I. (2009) 'Will the Entire Population be Overweight by 2230? Common Sense, Scientific Consensus and the "Obesity Epidemic"' in Mathar, T, and Jansen, Y. (eds) (2010) Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes is Practice; how patients' health practices are rationalised, reconceptualised and reorganised, Transcript, Bielefield.
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Ingram, D., Frow, E., Knight, C. and Fletcher, I. (2009) Future directions in research relating to food security: a consultation by the BBSRC on behalf of the Research Councils, ESRC Genomics Forum.Conference PresentationsThe rise of the obesity epidemic: body weight and recent public health policy, Medical Humanities Network 'Beauty Fat and Food' event, University of Edinburgh, May 2011 (invited contribution). Obesity and health inequalities: overlapping discourses in British biomedical research, Health Policy Workshop, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, June 2010.Obesity, chronic disease epidemiology and inequality, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, April 2010.A historical and sociological analysis of the science of the "obesity epidemic", European Summer University, European Institute for the History and Culture of Food, Francois Rabelais University, Tours, September 2009.
Research into Coronary Heart Disease, Risk Factors and Smoking: the historical context of the science of the 'obesity epidemic', Society for the Social History of Medicine Post-graduate conference, Medicine and Healthcare: History and Context, University College Dublin, April 2009.
Will the entire population be overweight by 2230? Common sense, scientific consensus and the ‘obesity epidemic', SSSS/EASST conference, Acting with Science Technology and Medicine, Rotterdam, August 2008.
Living it Large: Scientific Knowledge and the 'Obesity Epidemic', BSA Medical Sociology Group 39th Annual Conference, Liverpool, September 2007.
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