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Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies (Hardcover)

Posted on | January 2, 2010 | 3 Comments

Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies

Review”An excellent and comprehensive analysis. Chapters are written by leading scholars in the field, and are accessible as well as thorough. This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the stigma associated with weight, and should prove useful to clinicians and policymakers as well as scholars.”–Brenda Major, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara”Prejudice against people with obesity is so pervasive that it often passes unrecognized. For the first time, the nature, extent, and consequences of this prejudice are documented in a single, authoritative volume. Anyone interested in the welfare of people with obesity will want to read this unique and important book.”–Christoph (more…)

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3 Responses to “Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies (Hardcover)”

  1. Ida
    January 2nd, 2010 @ 11:10 pm
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    This is a collection of essays and research reports about bias against the overweight. I think the primary intended readership is professionals involved in helping people with weight problems, although it is clearly written and deserves a wider audience.
    Victims of obesity suffer in many ways. As adults they often have an increased liability to physical illness. Their major cause of suffering, especially at younger ages, is the effect of the condition on physical appearance, and the discrimination they endure on account of this. The commonest obesity-related related cause of death amongst teenagers is suicide. Suffering is often increased by efforts to force them to become thin, and complicated by the fact that most of them would like to be thinner.
    To a large extent, what the book does is to document the severity and extent and sources of this discrimination. This may sound unnecessary but the discrimination is often so subtle and pervasive that that “consciousness-raising” is necessary.
    While I hope not to sound as if saying anything that legitimizes bias, there are certain aspects to overweight that complicate crusading against bias and that none of the authors fully grapple with. Being short or dark-skinned or paraplegic are always completely outside the victim’s control, whereas the possibility always exists, however faint, of losing weight. This possibility is used by the anti-fat bigot to justify making life more difficult for overweight people. (See, for example, California’s SB 78)..

  2. Journey
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 12:04 am

    I have been using this book as a major source of information/ideas for my undergraduate senior thesis which focuses on weight bias in the University setting. It can be read from beginning to end or on a chapter-to-chapter basis. It contains great summaries and information about the most pertinent studies in the field, related studies and recommendations for new directions. About half of the book deals with the social consequences and taking the perspective of the obese person while the other half deals primarily with research regarding the development and propensity of weight bias. I highly recommend this source for social researchers, interested students and curious readers alike!

  3. Gisli
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 3:03 am

    This book sheds light on the stigma of obesity. It is so prevelant in our society. The editors have done a marvelous job of bringing it to our attention.

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