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The History of Soybeans in France and China
Chien-Ling Liu is a graduate student in the History Department at UCLA. Her dissertation research concerns knowledge making and remaking in medicine and public health through social engineering and institutional exchanges between China and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her interest lies in scientific studies of diet and nutrition as one…
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Tami Kremer-Sadlik
Director of Programs, Division of Social Sciences, UCLA. Dr. Kremer-Sadlik’s research focuses on children and family life with an emphasis on socio-cultural ideologies and moral expectations regarding what constitutes childhood, good parenting, and health and how these organize and give meaning to everyday practices and shape the experiences of individuals. Specifically, Kremer-Sadlik investigates how cultural…
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Social Problem Construction and National Context: News Reporting on “Overweight” and “Obesity” in the United States and France
Abstract: Drawing on analyses of American and French news reports on “overweight” and “obesity,” this article examines how national context—including position in a global field of nation states, as well as different national politics and culture—shapes the framing of social problems. As has been shown in previous research, news reports from France—the economically dominated but…
