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In the course of this book we stumbled upon so many ambiguities, controversies and uncertainties of the relationship between obesity, genomics and society that the time has come to try to find out their ethical meaning, in particular with respect to the improvement of the co-evolution of genomics and society. In discussing the current state of treatment of obesity, we found in Chapter 3 that there are at least three different ways of framing the problem of obesity: a Behaviour (individualizing and moralizing), an Environment (politicising and not individualizing) and a Body (individualizing but not moralizing) discourse.
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Korthals, M. (2011). Matching Nutrigenomics, Society and Values. In: Korthals, M. (eds) Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0127-4_15
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