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Recommended Reading: Jeff McMahan, “Justice and Liability in Organ Allocation,” in Social Research Dan Wikler, “Personal and Social Responsibility for Health,” in Ethics and International Affairs Ubel, Baron, and Asch, “Social Responsibility, Personal Responsibility, and Prognosis in Public Judgements About Transplant Allocation,” in Bioethics Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended and Discipline and Punish Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Invention https://tinyurl.com/ydxhdj8t Helene Shugart, Heavy https://tinyurl.com/ycrcupqv ContraPoints’ video on Fat Acceptance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsdaLqAZ9hA&t=376s Studies and legal cases showing fat people are discriminated against in employment: Elizabeth Kristen, “Addressing the Problem of Weight Discrimination in Employment,” California Law Review Charles Baum and William Ford, “The Wage Effects of Obesity: A Longitudinal Study,” In Health Economics Robert Klesges et al., “The Effect of Applicants’ Health Status and Qualifications on Simulated Hiring Decisions,” in International Journal of Obesity Judith Larkin & Harvey Pines, “No Fat Persons Need Apply,” in Society of Work and Occupations Daphne A. Roe & Kathleen R. Eickwort, “Relationships Between Obesity and Associated Health Factors with Unemployment Among Low Income Women,” in The Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association The State of Maryland Commission on Human Relations, Report on the Study of Weight and Size Discrimination Doe v. City of Belleville Greene v. Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. Butterfield v. New York State And in education: Helen Canning & Jean Mayer, “Obesity – Its Possible Effect on College Acceptance” in New England Journal of Medicine And in the legal system: Cookie Stephan & Judy Corder Tully, “The Influence of Physical Attractiveness of a Plaintiff on the Decisions of Simulated Jurors,” in The Journal of Social Psychology

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