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Dear Medical Sociology Study Group:

Please note one ammendment to Prof. Bendelow's earlier email concerning
the Food Study Group/SCOFF seminar in Edinburgh on the 26th of January:

If you would like to register for the event, please send the form to
myself rather than Sue Gregory. The address is:

Debra Gimlin
Department of Sociology
Edward Wright Building
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3QY

You can also phone me with any questions at: 0792 987 9606.

I have also re-sent the announcement (see below).

With apologies for any confusion,

Debra Gimlin

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'Obesity and Extremes: What's the Problem?'

A half-day seminar at the University of Edinburgh, 26 January, 2007
Conference Room (Grnd Flr)* David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh
EH8 9JX (Sponsored by the BSA Food Study Group/SCOFF)


Programme:

12:00-1:00 pm: Registration / Lunch / Welcome

1:00-2:00 pm: Karen Throsby, University of Warwick --
“Dieting like a normal person”: obesity, risk and responsibility in
accounts of weight loss surgery

2:00-2.30 pm: tea/coffee

2.30-3.30 pm: Lucy Aphramor, Coventry University and ‘HELP’ (Cardiac
Rehabilitation Programme) --
Has the energy balance equation had its day? Remapping fatness with
society in mind

3.30 - 4:00 pm: General discussion

Cost (incl lunch/tea/coffee): BSA/SCOFF Members: £15; non-BSA/non-SCOFF
Members £30

*Map:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/central-area/david-hume-tower/>http://www.ed.ac.
uk/maps/central-area/david-hume-tower/


To register, please print the following and return it to: Debra Gimlin,
Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3QY. With
any questions, please phone 07929879606.
__________________________________________________________


BOOKING FORM

Name _____________________________________________________

Address __________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

Contact Tel No ___________________________________________

Email ____________________________________________________


TICK ONE SPACE ONLY:

I enclose a cheque for:
£15** ____ (BSA FOOD STUDY GROUP/SCOFF MEMBER RATE)
£30** ____ (NON-BSA FOOD STUDY GROUP/NON-SCOFF MEMBER RATE)

**Please make cheques payable to ‘BSA food study group’


Please send me an invoice (supply address details if different from
above and tick one space below):

I am a BSA Food Study Group/SCOFF member ____
I am NOT a BSA Food Study Group/SCOFF member ____


I am unwaged / a postgraduate student and wish to be exempt from the
registration free (a limited number of free places will be available)____

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