%0 Journal Article
%T Socio-anthropological analysis of bariatric surgery patients: a preliminary study
%A Julia Navas L¨®pez
%J Social Medicine
%D 2010
%I Social Medicine Publication Group
%X Using socio-anthropological analysis, this paper presents preliminary results of an inter-disciplinary investigation entitled ¡°A nutritional and anthropological study of patients with type III and IV obesity undergoing bariatric surgery.¡± The medical ethnographic approach employed in this study has two goals: to study patients¡¯ cultural context before and after surgical treatment and to analyze perceptions, representations, social inte-gration, stigmatization, and social control before and after surgery. The results show potential discrimination against these patients based on their group identification and a permissive environment; these ideas are manifested in the concepts of the ¡°obesogenic society¡± and the ¡°obese victim.¡± On the other hand, the process of medicalization provides a mechanism capable of both social inclusion and exclusion. The results of this preliminary analysis are informing ongoing work between patients and professionals in this nutritional study.
%U http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/400