Excess gestational weight gain has numerous negative health outcomes for women and
children, including high blood pressure, diabetes, and cesarean section (maternal) and high …

The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic
ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine …

Despite numerous public health organizations supporting the pathologization of obesity and
considering recent obesity rates a health crisis, many researchers in the humanities, social …

Racial sympathy, defined as white distress over Black suffering, is an influential, but
understudied, force in American politics. This paper considers the behavioral consequences …

Assumptions about obesity—eg, its connection to ill health, its causes, etc.—are still
prevalent today, and they make up what I call the medical model of fatness. In this paper, I …

This chapter begins with an exploration of the concept of a disciplinary technique as
developed by Sandra Bartky, showing how microaggressions against fat folks function. It …

While biomedical understandings of food and diet coupled with discourses on individual
responsibility towards healthy food choices are nowadays prominent, other social and …

In 2003, Jennifer Grossman wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled “Food for
Thought (and for Credit)” with the opening sentence:“Want to combat the epidemic of …

This paper argues that common social narratives about unhealthy eaters can cause
significant damage to agency. I identify and analyze a narrative that combines a “control …

From around 1970, critics of the medicalisation of women's bodies drew attention to the
centring of the foetus and neonate in 'maternal'and child health, as medical researchers and …