THE BIRTH OF PATHOLOGIZING DISCOURSE OF OBESITY

Authors

  • Cezar Barbosa Santolin Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná /PR) (UNIOESTE).
  • Luiz Carlos Rigo Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Escola Superior de Educação Física. Pelotas, RS.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.46172

Keywords:

Obesity. History. Pathology.

Abstract

In order to explore the emergence of the concept of obesity, this historical study is theoretically and methodologically referenced on Michel Foucault’s archaeo-genealogical discourse analysis, focusing on the aesthetic, ethical, moral, religious and biological inflections in the early pathologization of excess body fat. From the mid-17th to the 19th century, medical discourses invested in pathologizing ugliness of the corpulent, the gluttony of sinners and the vice of the intemperant. From enunciation of ugliness as disease to medicalization of discourse, pathologization of that condition is a relatively recent development in the West, as opposed to some historians’ views.

 

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Author Biographies

Cezar Barbosa Santolin, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná /PR) (UNIOESTE).

Professor Mestre Colaborador do Departamento de Educação Física da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná /PR) (UNIOESTE). Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Estudos Culturais em Educação Física.

Luiz Carlos Rigo, Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Escola Superior de Educação Física. Pelotas, RS.

Professor Doutor Associado da Escola Superior de Educação Física e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel/RS). Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Estudos Culturais em Educação Física.

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Published

2015-02-05

How to Cite

SANTOLIN, C. B.; RIGO, L. C. THE BIRTH OF PATHOLOGIZING DISCOURSE OF OBESITY. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 1, p. 81–94, 2015. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.46172. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/46172. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2025.

Issue

v. 21, n.1, jan./mar. 2015

Section

Original Articles

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