Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Binge Eating Disorder, Binge Eating, Yehoshua Sagi
16 Apr 2016
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Construcions of overweight & eaing disorders, illness meanings of. Obesity/overweight: it"s the individuals fault, related to a bad diet, reversible condiion, lazy, obesity epidemic/big social problem, lack of intelligence, overweight/large = sign of wealth (in the past) Look at two leading studies that help to elucidate the social construcion of overweight and eaing disorders, and the social meanings of hiv/aids. Morality and health: news media construcions of overweight and eaing disorders (saguy & gruys 2010) Illness meanings of aids among women with hiv: merging immunology and life. Morality and health: news media construcions of overweight and eaing disorders (saguy & Anorexia: refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight" for age and height, fear of gaining weight or becoming fat", and denial of the gravity of one"s low body weight . Bulimia: recurrent episodes of binge eaing (eaing extremely large amounts of food in one siing) followed by inappropriate compensatory" purging (through vomiing and/or laxaives)
