Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice

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Synopsis
Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores how this happens and how we can change it. This interdisciplinary volume is grounded in a framework that challenges the dominant discourse that health in fat individuals must be improved through weight loss. The first part explores the negative impacts of bias, discrimination, and other harms by health care providers against fat individuals. The second part addresses how we can ‘fatten’ pedagogy for current and future health care providers, discussing how we can address anti-fat bias in education for health professionals and how alternative frameworks, such as Health at Every Size, can be successfully incorporated into training so that health outcomes for fat people improve. Examining what works and what fails in teaching health care providers to truly care for the health of fat individuals without further stigmatizing them or harming them, this book is for scholars and practitioners with an interest in fat studies and health education from a range of backgrounds, including medicine, nursing, social work, nutrition, physiotherapy, psychology, sociology, education and gender studies.
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
186 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000460308
Related ISBNs:
9780367522308, 9781032112169, 9781003057000
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Heather A. Brown and Nancy Ellis-Ordway
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Heather A Brown
Edited by:
Nancy Ellis-Ordway

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