Fat on Display

Haslam, David W.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2834-2_7

David W. Haslam MBBS, DGM⁴

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Abstract

William Wadd, the first author of a book entirely dedicated to obesity in 1810, compared the condition and man’s fascination with it, to the highest mountains and the great pyramids: “in vastness lies sublimity.” This explains the phenomenon of exhibitionism and voyeurism around the most obese individuals.

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Watton Place Clinic, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
David W. Haslam
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Arya M. Sharma
Department of Pathology, Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Haslam, D.W. (2014). Fat on Display. In: Haslam, D., Sharma, A., le Roux, C. (eds) Controversies in Obesity. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2834-2_7

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2834-2_7
Published: 08 October 2013
Publisher Name: Springer, London
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