Changing tastes
Learning Hunger and Fullness After Gastric Bypass Surgery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Line Hillersdal (0000-0002-8137-843X, The Saxo Institute University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Beth Christensen (0000-0003-4529-8253, University of Copenhagen), Bodil J Christensen (Institute of Food and Resource Economics University of Copenhagen), Lotte Holm (0000-0003-0667-7779, Institute of Food and Resource Economics University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 474-487 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12504 |
| PMID | 28297084 |
| OpenAlex | W2548851421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
Gastric bypass surgery is a specific medical technology that alters the body in ways that force patients to fundamentally change their eating habits. When patients enrol for surgery, they enter a learning process, encountering new and at times contested ways of sensing their bodies, tasting, and experiencing hunger and fullness. In this paper, we explore how patients begin to eat again after gastric bypass surgery. The empirical data used here are drawn from a Danish fieldwork study of individuals undergoing obesity surgery. The material presented shows how the patients used instructions on how to eat. We explore the ways in which diverse new experiences and practices of hunger and fullness are part of the process of undergoing surgery for severe obesity. New sensory experiences lead to uncertainty; as a result, patients practice what we term mimetic eating, which reflects a 'sensory displacement' and hence a rupture in the person's sense of self and social relations. We suggest that eating should be conceptualised as a practice that extends beyond the boundaries of our bodies and into diverse realms of relations and practices, and that changing the way we eat also changes the fundamentally embodied experience of who we are
Gastric bypass · Obesity · Weight loss · Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes · Diet and metabolism studies · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Surgery
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Pragmatics of Taste
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Appetites
Comfort Foods
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |