Handbook of Obesity: Etiology and Pathophysiology

Handbook of Obesity: Etiology and Pathophysiology 
Publisher: Informa Healthcare | ISBN: 0824709691 | edition 2003 | PDF | 1056 pages | 10,2 mb

Obesity, the stepchild of American medicine, may be the only remaining medical condition in which patients are stigmatized and their physicians disparaged. Few members of the medical profession profess to treat obesity, and many of those who do are marginal "diet doctors" or proprietors of pill mills. Treatment has always had limited effectiveness, and for some time it has largely been out of the hands of physicians. Psychologists, for example, developed the first systematic treatment for obesity -- behavior therapy -- and commercial weight-loss organizations have used this method to dominate the treatment of obesity in America. Most Americans who underwent treatment for obesity in the recent past did so under the auspices of these organizations, as obesity was progressively demedicalized. The recent entry of the pharmaceutical industry into the field has changed this picture for the better, but there is still a distressing disjunction between research and practice.


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