Jonathan Engel is professor of health policy and management at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught previously at Seton Hall University, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and at the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts. He served as a staff historian on the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and as the lead author on multiple HIV needs assessments for the city of Newark. In addition, he has conducted strategic design projects for the Kings County Hospital Center, the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, and Creative Cities International. His books include Doctors and Reformers, (2002); Poor People’s Medicine, (2006); The Epidemic: A History of AIDS, (2006); American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States, (2008); and Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump (2018).

This ambitious effort from U.S health and social welfare policy scholar and CUNY professor Engel details the cultural history of U.S. obesity. The author argues that critical changes to the workforce and the decentralization of communities, paired with the introduction of technology, most notably automation, have drastically contributed to a rise in obesity in post–World World II America.

• Chapter 1, An Old Problem, Chapter 2, Whence Cometh Fat, Chapter 3, The Unwalkable Landscape, Chapter 4, Changing Lives, Chapter 5, Changing Food/Changing Meals, Chapter 6, Addicted to Food, Chapter 7, Finding the Off Switch, Chapter 8, Exercise, Drugs, and Surgery, Chapter 9, Self Control, Chapter 10, Disparate Impacts, Chapter 11, What is to be Done?,

Jonathan Engel is professor of health policy and management at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught previously at Seton Hall University, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and at the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts. He served as a staff historian on the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and as the lead author on multiple HIV needs assessments for the city of Newark. In addition, he has conducted strategic design projects for the Kings County Hospital Center, the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, and Creative Cities International. His books include Doctors and Reformers, (2002); Poor People’s Medicine, (2006); The Epidemic: A History of AIDS, (2006); American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States, (2008); and Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump (2018).

This ambitious effort from U.S health and social welfare policy scholar and CUNY professor Engel details the cultural history of U.S. obesity. The author argues that critical changes to the workforce and the decentralization of communities, paired with the introduction of technology, most notably automation, have drastically contributed to a rise in obesity in post–World World II America.

• Chapter 1, An Old Problem, Chapter 2, Whence Cometh Fat, Chapter 3, The Unwalkable Landscape, Chapter 4, Changing Lives, Chapter 5, Changing Food/Changing Meals, Chapter 6, Addicted to Food, Chapter 7, Finding the Off Switch, Chapter 8, Exercise, Drugs, and Surgery, Chapter 9, Self Control, Chapter 10, Disparate Impacts, Chapter 11, What is to be Done?,

Jonathan Engel is professor of health policy and management at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught previously at Seton Hall University, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and at the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts. He served as a staff historian on the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and as the lead author on multiple HIV needs assessments for the city of Newark. In addition, he has conducted strategic design projects for the Kings County Hospital Center, the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, and Creative Cities International. His books include Doctors and Reformers, (2002); Poor People’s Medicine, (2006); The Epidemic: A History of AIDS, (2006); American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States, (2008); and Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump (2018).

This ambitious effort from U.S health and social welfare policy scholar and CUNY professor Engel details the cultural history of U.S. obesity. The author argues that critical changes to the workforce and the decentralization of communities, paired with the introduction of technology, most notably automation, have drastically contributed to a rise in obesity in post–World World II America.

• Chapter 1, An Old Problem, Chapter 2, Whence Cometh Fat, Chapter 3, The Unwalkable Landscape, Chapter 4, Changing Lives, Chapter 5, Changing Food/Changing Meals, Chapter 6, Addicted to Food, Chapter 7, Finding the Off Switch, Chapter 8, Exercise, Drugs, and Surgery, Chapter 9, Self Control, Chapter 10, Disparate Impacts, Chapter 11, What is to be Done?,