Weight bias in health education : critical perspectives for pedagogy and practice / edited by Heather A. Brown, Nancy Ellis-Ordway.
| Other author | Brown, Heather A. (EdD), editor. |
| Other author | Ellis-Ordway, Nancy, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 185 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness. ^A1140411 |
| Contents | Preface: How do we reeducate a nation? -- Introduction: Documented harm: how a misguided paradigm hurts fat people (and everybody else) -- Part I: When healers cause harm. Deadweight: unpacking fat shame in psychotherapy -- Medical equipment: the manifestation of anti-fat bias in medicine -- "Limited by body habitus": fat and stigmatizing rhetoric in medical records -- "God forbid you bring a cupcake": theorizing biopedagogies as professional socialization in dietetics education -- A textbook case of bias -- Why would I want to come back? Weight stigma and noncompliance -- Part II: Fattening pedagogy. Raising awareness of weight-based oppression in health care: reflections on lived experience education as emotional labor -- The weight of imaginative resistance and pedagogy for narrative transformation -- What counts as good or bad writing about weight: reflections of a writing coach -- Clinical revulsion: combatting weight stigma by confronting provider disgust -- Anti-fat bias in evidence-based psychotherapies for eating disorders: can they be adapted to address the harm? -- Incorporating fat pedagogy into health care training: evidence-informed recommendations -- Applying the attribution-value model of prejudice to fat pedagogy in health care settings -- Conclusion: a call to fatten pedagogy because lives depend on it. |
| Abstract | "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"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Heather A. Brown is the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center at the A.T. Still University College of Graduate Health Studies. She earned an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and an EdD in Adult and Higher Education from Northern Illinois University. Her research is focused on the connections between weight and learning and how to promote academic achievement in fat women in postsecondary education. Nancy Ellis-Ordway is a psychotherapist in private practice in Jefferson City, Missouri, with 30 years' experience; she specializes in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University and has a Ph. D. in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Missouri. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (Taylor and Francis, February 6, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Weight bias in health education. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9780367522308 |
| ISBN | 9781000460254 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000460258 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781003057000 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1003057004 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000460308 electronic book ; epub |
| ISBN | 1000460304 electronic book ; epub |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4324/9781003057000 |
| Stock number | 9781003057000 Taylor & Francis |