Weight Bias
Subtitle: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies
Contributors: Kelly D. Brownell (Editor); Rebecca M. Puhl (Editor); Marlene B. Schwartz (Editor); Leslie Rudd (Editor)
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: August 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781593851996
Subjects: Anthropology; Sociology; Health - General; Body image; Psychology; Social aspects; Discrimination against overweight persons; Social Psychology; Discrimination & Racism; Psychopathology - Eating Disorders; Psychology & Psychiatry / Eating Disorders
First sentence: In the past three decades, a growing body of literature has begun to document the marked discrimination that fat men and women face with regard to employment (Puhl &amp; Brownell, 2001; Roehling, 1999, 2002; Solovay, 2000).