… of the population are “overweight” and one-third are “obese.” “Experts” tell us that fat kills,
that the … The social construction of disease is often framed within the broader context of what …

… responds, “I’m going to go out and kill myself.” Lucy, who had gained weight since marrying
… by constructions of the “obesity epidemic,” or understandings of fatness as a global health …

… challenges of our age”—another nominalizing construction which discursively collapses the
… underpin obesity into a “health challenge”—a “great” one at that—and one that is owned (our…

… an attempt to understand what obesity is as a social construct and how it relates to … obesity
as a diagnosis: 1. Physicians’ professional definitions of and organization around obesity …

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare,
shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling …

… , meaning that I will live with obesity for the rest of my life. Right now, … Fat is not killing you. It
is the internalized weight bias and … How can obesity be a social construction? Whether it is a …

… and critiquing obesity epidemic thinking, we refer to our work … (a) the social construction of
an obesity epidemic depends on … words, such as obesity, are a necessary part of our empirical …

… social construction of the obese child. Scientific and mainstream articles regularly report on
the growing worry about childhood obesity… and calories in McDonald’s to kill a cow … so I don…

… Centrally, I will explore men’s everyday embodied meanings and orientations to what they
defined as problematic rather than uncritically accept the social construction of ‘the obesity …

… focus our critique on material structures, complex assemblages that traverse the micro and
micro-… Injustice is killing people on a large scale – but what is to be done about it? Journal of …