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Surgically altered self: How patients' negotiations of weight loss surgery discourses shape self conceptions.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surgically altered self: How patients' negotiations of weight loss surgery discourses shape self conceptions./
Author:	Drew, Patricia Anne.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Denise Bielby.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-07A.
Subject:	Psychology, Personality. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3323691
ISBN:	9780549755142

Surgically altered self: How patients' negotiations of weight loss surgery discourses shape self conceptions.
Drew, Patricia Anne.

Surgically altered self: How patients' negotiations of weight loss surgery discourses shape self conceptions. - 266 p.

Adviser: Denise Bielby.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008.

Over 205,000 Americans underwent weight loss surgery in 2007; approximately 85% of patients were women. This dissertation research examines how patients' self-conceptions change in relation to personal negotiations of gendered surgical discourses. I draw on data from 44 in-depth interviews and 55 open-ended surveys with male and female patients to consider the ways that self-concept transforms as individuals' negotiate obesity surgery-related discourses. Through the course of analyzing interview and survey data, and cultural and medical artifact materials, I identify four major discursive themes that most research participants grappled with as they underwent surgery. These include: medical conceptions of surgery, obesity related stigma, stigma related to appearance and stigma related to patients' surgical decision making. The four discourses I discuss in this research project are not the only discourses about weight loss surgery; however, these discourses are indicative of very salient moments in weight loss surgery patients' lives.

ISBN: 9780549755142Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017585
Psychology, Personality.

Surgically altered self: How patients' negotiations of weight loss surgery discourses shape self conceptions.
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520 $a Over 205,000 Americans underwent weight loss surgery in 2007; approximately 85% of patients were women. This dissertation research examines how patients' self-conceptions change in relation to personal negotiations of gendered surgical discourses. I draw on data from 44 in-depth interviews and 55 open-ended surveys with male and female patients to consider the ways that self-concept transforms as individuals' negotiate obesity surgery-related discourses. Through the course of analyzing interview and survey data, and cultural and medical artifact materials, I identify four major discursive themes that most research participants grappled with as they underwent surgery. These include: medical conceptions of surgery, obesity related stigma, stigma related to appearance and stigma related to patients' surgical decision making. The four discourses I discuss in this research project are not the only discourses about weight loss surgery; however, these discourses are indicative of very salient moments in weight loss surgery patients' lives.
520 $a In examining weight loss surgery patients' changing self-conceptions, I am also building upon ongoing social psychology scholarship. Sociologists James Holstein and Jaber Gubrium (2000) argue that individuals rely on discourse negotiation and interpretive practice when constructing self-concepts, and that interpretive practices change throughout individuals' lives. However, Holstein and Gubrium have not articulated the processes by which intra-situational interpretive practice transformations can occur. In particular, they have not demonstrated how change in a single set of discursive circumstances can lead to self-concept transformation. During the course of data collection and analysis, I discovered three separate, but often related, processes that reveal how intra-situational change can impact the self. Individuals' interpretive practices and self-concepts can change: (1) as people gain knowledge of previously unknown discourses; (2) as patients' experiences of already known discourses alter; and/or (3) as patients grapple with conflicting discourses.
520 $a Each of the three paths I outline demonstrates how individuals' interpretive practices and self-conceptions can change. My research additionally advances gender, medical, cultural and identity studies by demonstrating that patients selectively utilize gendered medical and cultural discourses when constructing their surgically altered selves.
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