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Alex and Liz take a look at Kate Manne's 2024 book, Unshrinking: How to face fatphobia. Along the way, they examine some of the key assumptions that drive widespread fatphobia in contemporary society, what the point of weight loss is supposed to be, the history of hazardous weight-loss treatments, and how Manne's book intersects with other publications by Ragen Chastain, Abigail C. Saguy, Paul Campos, and Paul Ernsberger.
- Ragen Chastain on weight loss as a prescription
- Chastain on how weight-loss studies are often deliberately misleading
- Abigail C. Saguy's book.
- Paul Campos' book and blog.
- 1989 debate over whether "obesity" is hazardous, with Paul Ernsberger taking the "negative" side.
- Ernsberger's earlier catalog of hazardous "obesity" treatments.
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