Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101629

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140101629

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Cold War Obesity Crisis: Fatness, Public Health, and Medical Science in the United States, 1940-1970. In 1951 the US Public Health Service declared obesity, newly reinterpreted as an addictive disorder, to be the nation’s leading health problem. This project will be the first to study the course of this early obesity crisis, analysing the interaction between popular perception, biomedical science and health policy, all in the political and cultural context of postwar America. Research will especially focus on the competing efforts of several biomedical disciplines and their scientific leaders to define the problem and shape responses to it. The goal is to understand the ways science and medicine related to social forces in the episode, and to derive lessons for today’s global obesity crisis.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | North American History | History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) | History and Philosophy of Medicine

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |

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