Mehl, Kayla R. (2023) The Medical Model of "Obesity" and the Values Behind the Guise of Health. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Assumptions about obesity – e.g., its connection to ill health, its causes, etc. – are still prevalent today, and they make up what I call the medical model of fatness. In this paper, I argue that the medical model was established on the basis of insufficient evidence and has nevertheless continued to be relied upon to justify methodological choices that further entrench the assumptions of the medical model. These choices are illegitimate in so far as they conflict with both the epistemic and social aims of obesity research. I conclude the paper with a partial solution to these epistemic and social shortcomings.
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Keywords: | medical model, values in science, aims of science, obesity, participatory research, social justice | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Medicine > Epidemiology Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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Depositing User: | Kayla Mehl | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2023 20:00 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 26 May 2023 20:00 | ||||||
Item ID: | 22144 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Medicine > Epidemiology Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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Date: | 24 May 2023 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22144 |
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