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Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Stigma of Weight Loss Surgery
- Source :
- Deviant Behavior. 39:137-147
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Willpower, as demonstrated through diet and exercise, is constructed as the only acceptable strategy for losing weight. While weight loss surgery (WLS) is an option for morbidly obese individuals, ...
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
business.industry
05 social sciences
050109 social psychology
Morbidly obese
medicine.disease
Obesity
Stigma (anatomy)
03 medical and health sciences
Clinical Psychology
0302 clinical medicine
Weight loss
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
Psychiatry
Weight Loss Surgery
business
Law
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15210456 and 01639625
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Deviant Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........28823e71142a96d039000ab0adf1bc15
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1263081