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Natalie Boero
Natalie Boero, PhD is a professor of sociology at San Jose State University. She is the author of Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, Morals and the American “Obesity Epidemic” and co-editor of The Oxford University Handbook of the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment.