About Deborah McPhail Deborah McPhail is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Books by Deborah McPhail Contours of the Nation Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970 by (author) Deborah McPhail Obesity in Canada Critical Perspectives edited by Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail & Wendy Mitchinson Acquired Tastes Why Families Eat the Way They Do by (author) Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman, Josée Johnston, Deborah McPhail, Elaine M. Power & Helen Vallianatos