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AMERICA, we are informed, is facing an weight problems epidemic - a "battle of the bulge" of not only countrywide, but global proportions-that requires radical and immediate action. Experts in the advertising, medical science, and government similarly are scrambling to find answers. What or who's in charge of this fat turmoil, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness become comprehended as a general public health crisis in any way? Why, she asks, gets the view of "fat" as a problem-a sign of immorality, a medical pathology, a general public health epidemic - come to dominate more positive framings of weight-as steady with health, beauty, or the best rights claim-in general public discourse? What makes heavy individuals singled out for blame? And what exactly are the consequences of understanding weight in these ways? What's Incorrect with Fat? presents each of the various ways in which fat is comprehended in the us today, evaluating the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we've come to understand the problem in these conditions, despite considerable medical uncertainty and issue. Saguy shows how debates over the partnership between body size and health risk take place within a more substantial, though often unseen, contest over whether we should understand fatness as weight problems at all. In addition, she shows that public discussions of the "obesity turmoil" do more injury than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. Demonstrating that the medical framing of extra fat is literally making us ill, What's Incorrect with Fat? offers a crucial corrective to our society's misplaced obsession with weight.
