| Title |
The Tipping of the Big Stone—And Life itself. Obesity, Moral Work and Responsive Selves Over Time
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11013-017-9535-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lone Grøn |
| Abstract |
Why is "everything I know is the right thing to do a million miles removed from what I do in reality?" This question posed by Rita, my main interlocutor and friend in a fieldwork that started in 2001-2003 and was taken up again in 2014-2015, opens up an exploration of moral work and moral selves in the context of the obesity epidemic and weight loss processes. I address these questions through the notion of "moral laboratories" taking up Mattingly's argument that moral cultivation over time cannot be disconnected from a notion of self. Mattingly has consistently argued for a biographical and narrative self, which is processual and created in community. Along these lines, and by recourse to the German philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels' phenomenology, I will propose the notion of a responsive self. The responsive self highlights the eventness of ongoing experimentation against the odds and captures equally pathic and agentive dimensions of a self that both persists and is transformed over time. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 26 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 26 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 5 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 12% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 19% |
| Unknown | 5 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 9 | 35% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 4 | 15% |
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