Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery - Couverture rigide

Trainer, Sarah; Brewis, Alexandra; Wutich, Amber

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1479894974 ISBN 13 : 9781479894970

Editeur : New York University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A study that explores patients' perspectives on a life-altering surgery

Bariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In Extreme Weight Loss, anthropologists Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich provide us with an inside look at how patients experience this medical procedure, as well as its far-reaching and complex personal implications.

Drawing on patient interviews, survey data, and more, Trainer, Brewis, and Wutich explore why people decide to undergo bariatric surgery, and how that decision transforms their lives. They show, in painstaking detail, how the journey to weight loss is can be at once painful and liberating, dispiriting and self-affirming.

Extreme Weight Loss explores questions about which bodies are treated as though they belong in modern societies, and which bodies are treated as unwanted. It considers how people challenge and manage these unfair standards, illuminating what it means to be large-bodied in America's diet-obsessed culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sarah Trainer is the Research and Program Coordinator at Seattle University for the National Science Foundation-funded SU ADVANCE Program.

Alexandra Brewis is President's Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where she founded the Center for Global Health. She is the author (with Amber Wutich) of the award winning book Lazy, Crazy and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health.

Amber Wutich is President's Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and Director of the Center for Global Health. She is co-author of Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systemic Approaches, Second Edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479894974
• ISBN 13: 9781479894970
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible