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Publication date: 1 February 2001

Steven Wolowitz and Scott E. Mortman

An analysis of the defense of these cases contrasting them to similar cases on the equity side. The authors explore some technical and real defenses that are uniquely applicable…

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An analysis of the defense of these cases contrasting them to similar cases on the equity side. The authors explore some technical and real defenses that are uniquely applicable to the commodity futures world.

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Journal of Investment Compliance, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1528-5812

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Publication date: 9 October 2012

Jessica Parr and Nicolas Rasmussen

Purpose – To reconsider the historical relationship between addiction and obesity, which current literature tends to treat as unrelated until the late twentieth century.Approach �…

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Purpose – To reconsider the historical relationship between addiction and obesity, which current literature tends to treat as unrelated until the late twentieth century.

Approach – We describe the forms of sociality and therapeutic discourses manifested in the emerging weight loss group movement from the 1940s until 1970 in cultural and intellectual context, drawing mainly on popular media and medical literature. The histories of these ‘Fatties Anonymous’ groups serve as valuable lens for studying the mutable cultural linkage between drug addiction and obesity that was first forged in the golden age of psychoanalysis.

Findings – We show that medicine began interpreting obesity as addiction around 1940 and that this view achieved dominance in both medical and popular discourse by 1950. The theoretical framing of a psychoanalytical interpretation of obesity in the 1940s, combined with the simultaneous rise to prominence of obesity-related problems in public health and popular stigma around fatness, was translated in the Cold War United States into a popular mutual-aid weight loss movement modelled on Alcoholics Anonymous.

Originality value – Our account challenges the present received view that the stigmatised health conditions of obesity and addiction only came to be related in the late twentieth century. There is notable similarity between the 1950s ‘Fatties Anonymous’ type group and present public health campaigns in fostering the individual's sense of self-control and encouraging self-enterprising improvement. Neither historical and contemporary similarities nor differences should be elided. Further research in this area would be of value to current and future developments in public health.

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Critical Perspectives on Addiction
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ISBN: 978-1-78052-930-1

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