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Fat Folks Deserve Medical Care That Isn't Aimed At Weight Loss; Alison Reiheld, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at SIU–Edwardsville; 26-Mar-2023

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Fat Folks Deserve Medical Care That Isn't Aimed At Weight Loss; Alison Reiheld, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at SIU–Edwardsville; 26-Mar-2023

Fat Folks Deserve Medical Care That Isn't Aimed At Weight Loss; Alison Reiheld, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at SIU–Edwardsville; 26-Mar-2023

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Medicine, and science in general, have an unfortunate tendency to conceive of health as an ideal state. Patients are then judged as having failed when they do not achieve it. Doctors and nurses are judged as having failed if they do not continue to push their patients to achieve an ideal state. But patients exist in the world with the bodies they actually show more
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