Diverse bodies: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology

S Cohn, R Lynch - Anthropology & medicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, medical anthropology has benefitted a great deal from debates in science
studies, and in particular, the focus on knowledge practices (Pickering 1995) and epistemic …

What is an advert? A sociological perspective on marketing media

R Cluley, E Nixon - Marketing Theory, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article draws on a conceptual vocabulary developed in science and technology studies
to advance a sociological theory of objects in marketing. Analysing a single advertising …

Sick but healthy: bariatric patients and the social construction of illness and disability

C Stevens - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bariatric (weight loss) surgery modifies the digestive system, which produces impairments
and symptoms which might be considered illness or disability. Bariatric patients, however …

The Taste of Intervention

BJ Christensen, L Hillersdal - … Taste Public: Ethnographies of Food and …, 2018 - torrossa.com
This chapter is about the role of taste and tasting among a group of women who have
undergone gastric bypass, an irreversible surgical treatment for severe obesity. It focuses on …

The Bariatric Bodies Project

CE Stevens - 2018 - rave.ohiolink.edu
How do bariatric patients make sense of the medical, aesthetic, and moral discourses
related to fat, health, and illness? How are patients' identities shifted as their bodies change …