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Deborah McPhail

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Unbearable lessons: Contesting fat phobia in physical education

H Sykes, D McPhail - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2008 - journals.humankinetics.com
In this article we examine how fat-phobic discourses in physical education both constitute,
and are continually negotiated by, “fat” and “overweight” students. This claim is based on …

Fat shame and blame in reproductive care: Implications for ethical health care interactions

P Ward, D McPhail - Women's Reproductive Health, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we explore the issue of fat shaming in reproductive health care. Using both
mainstream weight stigma literature and literature from the fields of critical obesity and fat …

Reproducing stigma: Interpreting “overweight” and “obese” women's experiences of weight-based discrimination in reproductive healthcare

AE Bombak, D McPhail, P Ward - Social Science & Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Amidst a barrage of policy documents, bio-medical research, and press items concerned with
the “crisis” of obesity, a growing scholarship is concerned with what has come to be known …

“I Don't Want to be Sexist But…” denying and re-inscribing gender through food

D McPhail, B Beagan, GE Chapman - Food, Culture & Society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Reporting the results of semi-structured interviews with adults and teenagers in twentytwo
urban and rural families in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores how gendered …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing gaps in physician knowledge regarding transgender health and healthcare through medical education

D McPhail, M Rountree-James… - … Medical Education Journal, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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[BOOK][B] Acquired tastes: Why families eat the way they do

BL Beagan, GE Chapman, J Johnston, D McPhail… - 2014 - books.google.com
Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food
choices–whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal–serve as bold …

Wombs at risk, wombs as risk: Fat women's experiences of reproductive care

D McPhail, A Bombak, P Ward, J Allison - Fat Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Using the Foucaultian concepts of biopower and biocitizenship, critical scholars of childhood
“obesity” have shown how fat mothers are labeled as “risks” not only to their children, but …

What to do with the “tubby hubby”?“Obesity,” the crisis of masculinity, and the nuclear family in early cold war Canada

D McPhail - Antipode, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Despite current insistence that obesity is a new problem, obesity and fat were discussed
frequently in the medical and popular presses and by state officials during the early Cold War in …

" Too much of that stuff can't be good": Canadian teens, morality, and fast food consumption

D McPhail, GE Chapman, BL Beagan - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Recently, public health agents and the popular media have argued that rising levels of obesity
are due, in part, to “obesogenic” environments, and in particular to the clustering of fast …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of dissociation of ligand-induced dimers of vancomycin antibiotics

D McPhail, A Cooper - Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday …, 1997 - pubs.rsc.org
The thermodynamics of dissociation of vancomycin and ristocetin dimers in the presence
and absence of specific ligands has been studied by direct microcalorimetry over a range of …