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Life Sciences
Findings from A. Kirkland and co-authors provide new insights into life sciences
July 1st, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Law & Society Review, "All the recent attention to the so-called obesity epidemic provides a fascinating context for understanding interactions between civil rights consciousness and the ordinary lives of fat people, who both deploy and resist the ideological formations that make up our most basic presumptions about who deserves rights protections. This study of fat acceptance advocates asks how stigmatized people who are excluded from legal protections muster descriptions of themselves as deserving inclusion in antidiscrimination laws." "Analysis of in-depth interviews with fat acceptance advocates from...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-01)
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