SHOLL, Jonathan; DE BLOCK, Andreas

doi:10.1111/obr.13828

SHOLL, Jonathan
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]

DE BLOCK, Andreas

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Obesity Reviews. 2024-09

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Despite numerous public health organizations supporting the pathologization of obesity and considering recent obesity rates a health crisis, many researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and even in the health sciences remain unconvinced. In this paper, we address a set of arguments coming from these academic fields that criticize medical models of obesity for their supposedly flawed diagnostic categories that shift focus onto individuals and support moralizing judgements. Clarifying some key claims in these models and explicating the view of obesity in terms of energy dysregulation, we aim to tease apart misunderstandings and argue that not only do these models not say what they are often accused of saying, but their apparent vices may actually be virtues in helping to combat stigma. Building on the social psychology of stigma and disease labeling, we then suggest that current medical models are largely supportive of many moral and political aims promoted by critics of these models.< Réduire

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Disease categories

Disease labeling

Obesity models

Stigma

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https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/203228

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.13828

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ImmunoConcEpT - UMR 5164

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