Extreme Weight Loss : : Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery / / Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich.
A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgeryBariatric 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 5 b/w illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Weight as Pathology -- 2 Weight as Judgment -- 3 Weight Loss as Success -- 4 Weight, Worry, and Surveillance -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A Ethnographic Methods -- Appendix B The Survey -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
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Summary: | A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgeryBariatric 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781479857265 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 9783110739107 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479894970.001.0001 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich. |