Abstract:Reflecting on the World Health Organization's (WHO) account of obesity and recent developments in ethnography, I advocate for a collaborative, multiauthor approach to studying obesity and, more broadly, chronic disease. To illustrate this, I show how recent ethnographies of obesity and metabolism have convincingly challenged and reframed the WHO's account of obesity. I further suggest that future ethnographic studies of obesity (and chronic disease) could expand their analytical scope-without sacrificing a cri… Show more
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