#State of effortless professional#

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#State of effortless professional#

Professional guidance encourages dialog and reflexivity within the patient that are consonant with neoliberal understandings of the self-disciplined subject, yet they expand, and at times undermine these neoliberal notions by attending to other body ethics and contesting elements of fat stigma.Īrterburn, David E., Dana A. They are further guided to cognitively imitate an effortless “thin state of mind.” And finally, they are instructed to “put themselves first” by reorganize their interactions with significant others. First, patients are instructed to “listen to their bodies” and to reconnect to their embodied sensations. Drawing on ethnographic inquiry in a bariatric clinic, I argue that this moral project is understood through new relationships within various registers of patients’ subjectivity. I suggest that bariatric surgery becomes a site of a “moral breakdown,” where professionals direct patients to morally recuperate not only through technologies of the self, such as intensive bodywork and diets, but through “moral laboratories,” which invite moments of experimentation in everyday life.

In clinical settings aimed at transforming the body, the consultation sessions between bariatric professionals and patients reveal nuanced moral deliberations.

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