Fatphobia and medical biases follow people after death
Fatphobia and medical biases follow people after death
- August 18, 2022
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, Popular Science, Aug. 18, 2022
This means that in death, as in life, those who carry their weight “better” may be more favorable and be accepted into donation programs, while those with a less lean appearance and higher BMI will not. This is a problem for a number of reasons, says Sabrina Strings, [associate professor of sociology] at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. “BMI is a problem because it was devised using something that is not a scientific method,” Strings says.
For the full story, please visit https://www.popsci.com/health/medical-fatphobia-body-donations/.
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