Tag Archives: BMI

What you don’t know CAN hurt you: Epistemic Injustice and Conceptually Impoverished Health Promotion
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Posted on by May 18, 2018
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I want to consider a particular kind of wrong within medicine and health promotion: epistemic injustice and its harms. My case study is obesity conceived of as a public health concern. However, the analytic framework I deploy may prove useful … Continue reading →

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Obesity at the Pediatrician’s Office
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Posted on by July 21, 2016
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The excellent medical history and women’s studies blog Nursing Clio is running a series of posts about female presidential candidates. They also recently featured a truly illuminating scholarly blog entry on the history and modern use of obesity and BMI in pediatric … Continue reading →

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