系列：健康的关键方法
从理论上讲，肥胖是一个全球性的大问题，是一种流行病，还是一场危机。反思肥胖让读者重新思考人口体重（增加）的医学和公共卫生框架。该书关注社会价值观、科学不确定性和可能的危害，进一步批判了以体重为中心的健康模式和世界反肥胖战争。本书以临界体重研究、脂肪研究和临界肥胖研究的现有国际文献为基础，在身体政治和健康政策、流行病学和肥胖科学、媒体报道和与体重相关的污名方面推进了学术研究。
作者们反对“超重的大多数人”懒惰、贪吃，并对他们的实际或潜在疾病负有个人责任的普遍道德叙事，而解决方案最终需要改变个人的生活方式。批评还延伸到看似富有同情心的公共卫生干预措施，这些干预措施通过呼吁现代生活的后果“肥胖环境”来避免受害者受到指责。实证案例研究的基础是女性反复且往往令人沮丧的节食经历，以及女学生遇到的肥胖教育法，这对占主导地位的肥胖论述构成了挑战。认识到已宣布的公共卫生危机可能会在社会中分层和级联，本书还包括及时研究2019冠状病毒疾病大流行的应对措施，因为人们担心体重增加、超重和肥胖人群感染和死亡的风险会增加。
重新思考肥胖问题不仅通过残忍，而且通过看似仁慈的表述、教育方法和政策，质疑社会不公是如何再现的。在危机时期寻求培养集体希望时，还考虑了其他方法和行动，从体重包容性健康模式到更广泛的社会变革。这本书对医学社会学、社会和人口健康科学、体育、临界体重和脂肪研究以及身体的社会维度的学生和研究人员来说是很有价值的。
Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times
Series: Critical Approaches to Health
Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing international literature from critical weight studies, fat studies and critical obesity research, the book advances scholarship with reference to body politics and health policy, epidemiology and obesity science, media reporting and weight-related stigma.
The authors resist the common moralised narrative that ‘the overweight majority’ are lazy, gluttonous, and personally responsible for their actual or potential ills and the solution ultimately necessitates individual lifestyle change. Critique is also extended to seemingly compassionate public health interventions that putatively avoid victim-blaming through an appeal to ‘the obesogenic environment’, a consequence of modern living. Empirical case studies are grounded in women’s repeated and often frustrating experiences of dieting and schoolgirls’ encounters with fat pedagogy, which challenges dominant obesity discourse. Recognising that declared public health crises may become layered and cascade through society, this book also includes timely research on the COVID-19 pandemic response amidst concerns about lockdown weight-gain, heightened risk of infection and death among people deemed overweight and obese.
Rethinking Obesity interrogates how social injustice is reproduced not only through cruelty but also through seemingly benevolent representations, pedagogies and policies. Alternative approaches and action, ranging from weight-inclusive health paradigms to broader social change, are also considered when seeking to foster collective hope in crisis times. This is valuable reading for students and researchers in medical sociology, social and population health sciences, physical education, critical weight and fat studies, and the social dimensions of the body.
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