These resources are related to Sander Gilman's public lecture entitled: “Fat Boys: The Unknown Story of Men and Fat” on 22 September.

For more information regarding the program, visit the Center for Ethics website.

Material by Sander L. Gilman, on Library Reserve for The Center for Ethics

Gilman, Sander L. Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Main Collection 306.46 G487d

————. Fat Boys: A Slim Book. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Main Collection 616.3980081 G487f

————. Making the body beautiful : a cultural history of aesthetic surgery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Main Collection 617.95 G487m

————. Picturing health and illness: images of identity and difference. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
Main Collection 610.9 G487p

Note: More items by Sander Gilman can be found by searching the library catalog for the author: Gilman, Sander.

Reference Works

Longe, Jacqueline L., ed. Gale encyclopedia of medicine, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002.
Ref. 616.003 G151e v.1-5

Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck, ed. Worldwide health sourcebook : basic information about global health issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease dispersion and prevention. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 W927h

Nordhaus, Hannah. Health : a concern for every American. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 H863h

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
This sociology database is an excellent source for finding articles on how obese people are perceived by society.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and weight issues.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

MLA
This literature (humanities) database is useful for finding criticism and articles about representations of obese people in literature.

PubMed (Medline)
An excellent source for finding articles from the medical field.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multidisciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Body image
Body image in children
Body image in adolescence
Body image in men
Body image in women
Compulsive eating
Eating disorders in children
Eating disorders in adolescence
Obesity
Obesity in adolescence
Obesity in children
Obesity psychological aspects
Weight loss

Selected Works from the Main Collection and Government Documents

Main Collection

Abraham, Suzanneand Derek Llewellyn-Jones. Eating disorders : the facts, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Main Collection 616.852 A159e

Capaldi, Elizabeth D., ed. Why we eat what we eat : the psychology of eating. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1996.
Main Collection 394.019 C236w

Counihan, Carole and Penny Van Esterik, eds. Food and culture: a reader. New York : Routledge, 1997.
Main Collection 394.1 C855f

Chernin, Kim. The obsession : reflections on the tyranny of slenderness. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Main Collection 391.62 C521o

Crister, Greg. Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
NYT Bestsellers 362.1 Cri

Lowe, Margaret A. Looking good : college women and body image, 1875-1930. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
Main Collection 306.4 L913L

Serlin, David Harley. Replaceable you : engineering the body in postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
ON ORDER

Thompson, J. Kevin and Linda Smolak, eds. Body image, eating disorders, and obesity in youth : assessment, prevention, and treatment. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Main Collection 618.928526 T473b

Government Documents

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Getting fit, staying healthy : strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity in America : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on examining strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity, in an effort to stave off the obesity epidemic in America, May 21, 2002. Washington, DC: GPO, 2003.
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS29808
Govt Docs Microforms Y 4.L 11/4:S.HRG.107-477

Overweight among U.S. children and adolescents. Hyattsville, MD: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2002. [2-page factsheet]
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS21878
Govt Docs HE 20.6202:N 95/19

Selected Websites

Governmental and International Organizations

Center for Disease Control (CDC): Overweight and Obesity Page
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/index.htm

United States Surgeon General: Overweight and Obesity Page
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/

Organizations and Centers

American Obesity Association
http://www.obesity.org/

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Aim for a Healthy Weight
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/index.htm

Overeaters Anonymous
http://www.overeatersanonymous.org/

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