Kristen A Hardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1294823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen A Hardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardy |
| SIGNATURE | HARDY K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five Ways Health Care Can Be Better for Fat People
Discussions about how to better accommodate fat persons' needs in health care settings tend to focus on how to reduce stigma and improve equipment (eg, scanners). While important, such efforts must address underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy, including thin-centrism, a tendency to pathologize fatness, inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership, and power differentials between…
Butchering the fat body: Enacting and engaging fatness in an American “anti-obesity” campaign
While public concern with body weight is not simply a recent phenomenon, the past several decades have witnessed the intensification of a set of discourses that frame the fat/ness of bodies as a public health crisis, particularly in the United States. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US-American Advertising Council (Ad Council) co-produced a series of print, radio, and television "public service announcement…
The Education of Affect: Anatomical Replicas and ‘Feeling Fat
This article examines the cultural dimensions of synthetic 'body fat replicas', anatomically modelled objects used in educational and medical settings to train subjects in particular affective responses to fat/ness. Specifically, I focus on theorizing the phenomenological experience of embodied engagements with such models, and exploring the manner in which the replicas are designed to participate in the shaping of emotional orientations toward o…
The Education of Affect: Anatomical Replicas and ‘Feeling Fat
This article examines the cultural dimensions of synthetic 'body fat replicas', anatomically modelled objects used in educational and medical settings to train subjects in particular affective responses to fat/ness. Specifically, I focus on theorizing the phenomenological experience of embodied engagements with such models, and exploring the manner in which the replicas are designed to participate in the shaping of emotional orientations toward o…
The Education of Affect: Anatomical Replicas and ‘Feeling Fat
This article examines the cultural dimensions of synthetic 'body fat replicas', anatomically modelled objects used in educational and medical settings to train subjects in particular affective responses to fat/ness. Specifically, I focus on theorizing the phenomenological experience of embodied engagements with such models, and exploring the manner in which the replicas are designed to participate in the shaping of emotional orientations toward o…
Butchering the fat body: Enacting and engaging fatness in an American “anti-obesity” campaign
While public concern with body weight is not simply a recent phenomenon, the past several decades have witnessed the intensification of a set of discourses that frame the fat/ness of bodies as a public health crisis, particularly in the United States. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US-American Advertising Council (Ad Council) co-produced a series of print, radio, and television "public service announcement…
Five Ways Health Care Can Be Better for Fat People
Discussions about how to better accommodate fat persons' needs in health care settings tend to focus on how to reduce stigma and improve equipment (eg, scanners). While important, such efforts must address underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy, including thin-centrism, a tendency to pathologize fatness, inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership, and power differentials between…
Obesity and Health Practices (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)