TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trainer,Sarah
AU  - Brewis,Alexandra
AU  - Wutich,Amber
TI  - Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery 
SN  - 9781479894970
AV  - RD540 .T73 2021
U1  - 617.4/3 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Gastric bypass
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Weight loss
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - anthropology
KW  - bariatric surgery
KW  - body mass indices (BMI)
KW  - chronicity
KW  - diet
KW  - dieting
KW  - discrimination
KW  - dumping
KW  - ethnography
KW  - failure
KW  - fat stigma
KW  - fat
KW  - gastric bypass
KW  - hope
KW  - loose skin
KW  - misfitting
KW  - noncompliance
KW  - normal
KW  - obesity
KW  - overweight
KW  - qualitative data collection
KW  - restrictive eating
KW  - social norms
KW  - stigma
KW  - surveillance
KW  - type 2 diabetes
KW  - weight loss
KW  - weight
KW  - worry
N1  - restricted access
N2  - A study that explores patients' perspectives on a life-altering surgeryBariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In Extreme Weight Loss, anthropologists Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich provide us with an inside look at how patients experience this medical procedure, as well as its far-reaching and complex personal implications. Drawing on patient interviews, survey data, and more, Trainer, Brewis, and Wutich explore why people decide to undergo bariatric surgery, and how that decision transforms their lives. They show, in painstaking detail, how the journey to weight loss is can be at once painful and liberating, dispiriting and self-affirming.Extreme Weight Loss explores questions about which bodies are treated as though they belong in modern societies, and which bodies are treated as unwanted. It considers how people challenge and manage these unfair standards, illuminating what it means to be large-bodied in America's diet-obsessed culture
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ER  -