La medicalización de la obesidad. Concepciones y experiencias ; sobre la gordura en jóvenes con "exceso" de peso

Gracia Arnaiz, María Isabel

Publication year:

2011

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-227-5

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

Our research analyzes representations of fatness and the experience of being overweight among young people in Catalonia. We demonstrate that increasing social rejection of fat persons can be traced to the recent definition of obesity as a disease. The process of medicalizing fatness, far from helping to de-stigmatize obese people, is becoming a way of (re)signifying it.