What's in a Word? On Weight Stigma and Terminology

Affiliations

Angela Meadows et al. Front Psychol. 2016.

. 2016 Oct 5:7:1527.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01527. eCollection 2016.

No abstract available

Keywords: anti-fat prejudice; fat activism; language; obesity; social justice; terminology; weight bias; weight stigma.

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