Weight Bias in Health Education

Heather A. Brown is the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center at the A.T. Still University College of Graduate Health Studies. She earned an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and an EdD in Adult and Higher Education from Northern Illinois University. Her research is focused on the connections between weight and learning and how to promote academic achievement in fat women in postsecondary education.Nancy Ellis-Ordway is a psychotherapist in private practice in Jefferson City, Missouri, with 30 years' experience; she specializes in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University and has a Ph.D. in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Missouri.

• 1.Introduction- Documented Harm: How a Misguided Paradigm Hurts Fat People (and Everybody Else). Part I-When Healers Cause Harm 2.Deadweight: Unpacking Fat Shame in Psychotherapy 3.Medical Equipment: The Manifestation of Anti‐Fat Bias in Medicine 4."Limited By Body Habitus": Fat and Stigmatizing Rhetoric in Medical Records 5."God forbid you bring a cupcake": Theorizing Biopedagogies as Professional Socialization in Dietetics Education 6.A Textbook Case of Bias 7.Why Would I Want to Come Back? Weight Stigma and Noncompliance Part II: Fattening Pedagogy 8.Raising Awareness of Weight-Based Oppression in Health Care: Reflections on Lived Experience Education as Emotional Labor 9.The Weight of Imaginative Resistance and Pedagogy for Narrative Transformation 10.What Counts as Good or Bad Writing About Weight: Reflections of a Writing Coach 11.Clinical Revulsion: Combatting Weight Stigma by Confronting Provider Disgust 12.Anti‐Fat Bias in Evidence Based Psychotherapies for Eating Disorders: Can They Be Adapted to Address the Harm? 13.Incorporating Fat Pedagogy into Health Care Training: Evidence‐Informed Recommendations 14.Applying the Attribution‐Value Model of Prejudice to Fat Pedagogy in Health Care Settings 15.Conclusion: A Call to Fatten Pedagogy Because Lives Depend on It

"The book feels simultaneously grounded in academic theory and research, alongside important reflections on the lived experiences of the contributors and people in their lives and work [...] This book would be a great resource to use in a variety of health education classes, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to introduce weight bias and weight-inclusive care to students. Weight Bias in Health Education is quite readable and could be read throughout the semester, or assigned as individual chapters, as they also stand well on their own. Practicing health professionals would also benefit from reading this volume, as would healthcare educators who are new to the area but want to introduce these ideas into their classrooms."Meredith Bessey in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society