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In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.

Health Behavior. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Body Image. --- Obesity. --- Medical anthropology. --- Obesity --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Obesity Management --- Body Weight --- Hyperphagia --- Weight Gain --- Bariatrics --- Body Representation --- Body Schema --- Body Identity --- Body Images --- Body Representations --- Body Schemas --- Identity, Body --- Image, Body --- Representation, Body --- Schema, Body --- Physical Appearance, Body --- Self Concept --- Health-Related Behavior --- Behavior, Health --- Behavior, Health-Related --- Behaviors, Health --- Behaviors, Health-Related --- Health Behaviors --- Health Related Behavior --- Health-Related Behaviors --- Healthy Lifestyle --- Health Promotion --- Life Style --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Social aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- Obésité --- Anthropologie médicale --- Aspect social

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Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice.

World health. --- Medical anthropology. --- Health attitudes. --- Sanitation. --- Weight loss. --- Mental illness --- Obesity --- Sanitation --- Health attitudes --- Stigma (Social psychology) --- Global Health --- Global health --- International health --- Public health --- Medical geography --- Identity (Psychology) --- Shame --- Social psychology --- Health --- Hygiene --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Health behavior --- Cleanliness --- House drainage --- Sanitary affairs --- Sanitation services --- Sanitation systems --- Environmental health --- Sanitary engineering --- Adiposity --- Corpulence --- Fatness --- Overweight --- Body weight --- Metabolism --- Nutrition disorders --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- Losing weight --- Loss of weight --- Reducing --- Reduction of weight --- Slimming --- Weight control of obesity --- Weight reducing --- Weight reduction --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- ethnology --- International cooperation --- Public opinion --- Disorders --- Control --- Anthropological aspects --- Social Stigma --- Attitude to Health --- Mental Disorders --- Santé publique --- Stigmatisation (psychologie sociale) --- Santé --- Habitudes sanitaires --- Obésité --- Maladies mentales --- Attitude envers la santé --- Attitude (psychologie) --- Attitude to Health. --- Obesity. --- Mental Disorders.

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Bariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In this book, 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.

Obesity --- Gastric bypass. --- Weight loss. --- Surgery --- Patients. --- Social aspects.