The term" patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community--in
particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities--sought to raise …

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book
employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …

Sizeism permeates and shapes how scientific and professional communities—including
therapists—perceive, understand, and behave toward anyone considered fat. In this article …

El propósito de este estudio es el análisis del pensamiento de los estudiantes inactivos
sobre sus experiencias negativas en educación física y los discursos sociales asociados a …

Scholars have long studied consumer taste dynamics within class-stratified contexts, but
relatively little attention has been paid to the taste preferences of low-socioeconomic-status …

We are in constant dialogue with fat. We consider where our fat lives on our bodies—how to
grow it, contain it, remove it, and prevent it. We check fat grams and make choices about …

ABSTRACT I argue here that even sympathetic representations of obesity as a pathology
most prevalent among black and Latina/o women and children can help reproduce racial …

Diagnosis is a pivotal tool for the work of medicine as they categorise and classify individual
ailments via a generalised schema. However diagnosis is also a profoundly social act …

Scope To assess the associations of plasma eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) with body fat in a population‐based sample and explore the …

This study explores how fat female employees engage in identity work to manage
stigmatizing expectations grounded in healthism and obesity discourse that construct fat …