BMI is Just a Number: Conflating Riskiness and Unhealthiness in Discourse on Body Size
Despite the ubiquity of the body mass index (BMI) in discourse on health, there is ambiguity in its use as a biomarker of current abnormality versus future risk. This distinction is consequential for knowledge of the relationship between body size and health, as well as for individuals deemed to hav...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Sociology of health & illness 2021-06, Vol.43 (6), p.1437-1453 |
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