En ny vidensabelig artikel er tilgængelig: "Obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions", Critical Public Health, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2013, pages 249-262, published online 15 Jul 2013. Nogle få highlight fra denne artikel: - "Specifically, we question the assertion of a causal link within dominant obesity discourse, often made on the basis of correlations rather than causal pathways, and we acknowledge that measures such as the Body Mass Index (BMI) are notoriously unreliable." - "Furthermore, as elaborated in a growing literature, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the science legitimating the war on fat." - "Evidence that weight-loss will improve health is contradictory (in fact the opposite may be true)." - "Ethical concerns about unintended negative consequences – such as increased stigmatisation and eating disorders plus the unwitting individualisation of social structural determinants of health – raise further questions about the appropriateness of a size-based approach to public health." - "Contributors working within and across disciplines such as sociology, geography, social psychology, law, dietetics, physical education, cultural studies and public health (amongst others) offer considerable food for thought. For instance, they argue that the universal ‘truths’ underpinning concern about an ‘obesity epidemic’ (that fatness is inherently unhealthy and that it can be treated through individual body work) are reliant on moral and cultural ideologies to mask the underlying uncertainties in biomedical knowledge." - "Others have questioned the extent to which this knowledge of an epidemic is itself produced through particular political economic relations within which powerful actors (e.g. the diet and pharmaceutical industries) have a vested interest in the continued assertion that fatness is universally bad." - "There are important differences in terminology that warrant note here. Medicalised accounts tend to use the terms ‘obesity’ [på dansk = ‘fedme’] and ‘overweight’ [på dansk = ‘overvægt(ig)’], since these terms refer not only to the size of a body, but also that it is diseased or at increased risk of disease. Critical work, such as that within this special edition, problematises the use of these terms, and where we use them here, we do so with caution – using them when we are referring to academic or policy work which labels bodies as such, or branches of social science that challenge obesity science on its own terms. We are critical of these biomedical terms and the pathologisation of bodies on the basis of size. More often within the social sciences the term ‘fat’ [på dansk = ‘tyk’] is used by writers in order to distance themselves from biomedical categories and for fat activists, it is used as part of a political strategy to reclaim the word, transforming it into a marker of pride thereby countering its use to stigmatise particular bodies." tandfonline/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2013.814312
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