The Fat Doctor Podcast Challenging the third law: Are individuals responsible for improving their own health? (Part 2)
In order to challenge the third law of healthism, Dr. Asher Larmie is joined by Dr Lily O'Hara, Associate Professor of Public Health at Qatar University. Her research focuses on analyzing oppressive public health approaches to body weight and their inequitable impact on people with larger bodies, and developing ethical, evidence-based, salutogenic public health initiatives for body liberation using the social justice-based Health at Every Size approach.
In Part Two, Asher and Lily discuss:
- Wellness culture and how different it is from the salutogenic, ecological health paradigm
- The ethics of weight loss surgery
- Why some people are fanatical about wellness culture
- Why we can't assume that between population based studies apply to individuals
References:
Season 1, Episode 10 of the Fat Doctor Podcast; "The one about cancer".
The Weighting Room Webinar on Weight Loss Surgery
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More about the Dr Lily O'Hara
Dr Lily O’Hara is Associate Professor of Public Health at Qatar University. She is a public health and health promotion educator and practitioner with experience in Australia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Lily has worked on community, workplace, and school-based programs addressing a broad range of health and wellbeing issues. Lily’s research focuses on developing the critical health promotion competencies of the community, workforce, and institutions through the development of the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model, professional de
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