Empowerment and Bariatric Surgery
Negotiations of Credibility and Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4622945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Ruud Knutsen (0000-0002-1310-615X, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway), Laura Terragni (0000-0001-5313-7471, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University), Christina Fo, Christina Foss (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-77 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732312465966 |
| PMID | 23166152 |
| OpenAlex | W2121815955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 39 |
Today obesity is understood as a chronic illness. Programs developed to deal with obesity often build on an explicit aim to "empower" patients to take increased responsibility for their health, in line with contemporary neoliberal discourses. There is little empirically based knowledge about this so-called empowering process. In this article we focus on how an empowering program for patients diagnosed as morbidly obese worked on individuals' identity. The program encompassed a course in lifestyle change, bariatric surgery, and aftercare. We conducted qualitative interviews with 9 individuals at different stages of their treatment process and applied discourse analysis to interpret their constructions and negotiations as they progressed through the program. We found that dimensions of control and credibility framed the respondents' identity work. Based on the findings we suggest that contemporary discourses of empowerment as practice might leave the participants "trapped" within the ambivalence of freedom and control
Ambivalence · Credibility · Empowerment · Focus group · Medicalization · Negotiation · Political science · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology
The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery
Bariatric surgery as prophylaxis
Conceptualising service integration for inclusive activation
Patients’ perceptions of waiting for bariatric surgery
Operating (on) the self
The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery
Paradoxical bodies
Moral Biocitizenship
We Don't Want You to Diet
Not 'Taking the Easy Way Out
Eating in the Panopticon
Active Interviewing
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Ethics
The Role of the Fatosphere in Fat Adults’ Responses to Obesity Stigma
Competing Motivational Discourses for Weight Loss
A policy analysis of the Expert Patient in the United Kingdom
Discussion Piece
Corporeal Knowledges and Deviant Bodies
Weighing Health
The War on Obesity as a Moral Project
Governing the Soul
Consumption and its discontents
At the Margins? Discourse Analysis and Qualitative Research
The emergence of overweight as a disease entity
The 'expert patient
Experiences of Self-Monitoring
The Shaping of Midlife Women's Views of Health and Health Behaviors
Using Positive Deviance for Determining Successful Weight-Control Practices
Reconsidering patient empowerment in chronic illness
The (dis)embodied self in anorexia nervosa
Disturbing Notions of Chronic Illness and Individual Responsibility
Wellbeing and empowerment
Governing the ethical consumer
Accounts of health and illness
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |