Configuring bariatric bodies: exploring obesity surgery beyond the hospital

Sanz Porras, Jordi

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dc.contributor.author	Sanz Porras, Jordi	de
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-30T09:54:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T23:27:06Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T23:27:06Z
dc.date.issued	2006	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/6428
dc.description.abstract	Bariatric surgery (surgery for obesity) is, in many cases, the last resort for the clinically overweight. Drawing on ethnographic materials in a unit of morbid obesity, this article explores how "bariatric bodies" are configured so that bariatric surgery is a sustainable solution beyond the operation theatre. However, what medicine calls 'side-effects', are, in terms of body configuration, a new set of semiotic-material relationships which start, but do not end, in the operating theatre. The bariatric digestive system might not necessarily fit with the set of relations with which it has to deal on leaving the hospital: the person will have to cope with eating very little, and with being able to ingest only a very limited amount of nutrients.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Medicine and health	en
dc.subject.ddc	Medizin und Gesundheit	de
dc.subject.other	Surgery
dc.subject.other	Obesity
dc.subject.other	Hospitals
dc.subject.other	Body configuration
dc.subject.other	Actor-Network Theory
dc.title	Configuring bariatric bodies: exploring obesity surgery beyond the hospital	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet	de
dc.description.review	reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social	de
dc.publisher.country	ESP
dc.source.issue	10	de
dc.subject.classoz	Medizin, Sozialmedizin	de
dc.subject.classoz	Medicine, Social Medicine	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64285	de
dc.date.modified	2009-11-05T11:19:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung	de
dc.rights.licence	Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
internal.status	3	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	t	de
dc.source.pageinfo	103-120
internal.identifier.classoz	50100
internal.identifier.journal	29	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	610
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
internal.identifier.licence	3
internal.identifier.pubstatus	1
internal.identifier.review	2
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer	CERTAIN
internal.check.languageharmonizer	CERTAIN_RETAINED

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