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    Eating as a Self-Shaping Activity

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    Dean, Megan Ashley
    Advisor
    Kukla, Rebecca
    ORCID
    0000-0002-5106-2485
    Abstract
    My dissertation offers a new account of eating as a self-shaping activity. I argue that the ways we understand and practice eating shape our agency, affects, capacities, values, temporality, and other important aspects of the self. Moreover, eating can shape the self in good or bad ways. To develop this account, I analyze and critique the view that good eating is healthy eating, and good eaters eat for health above all else. I contend that current bioethical critiques of such ‘healthism’ do not account for the self-shaping effects of eating and so lack a complete analysis of healthism’s ethical import. Through an extended critique of diet research on eating disorders and vegetarianism, I also show how understanding eating as a self-shaping activity helps us make ethically-informed choices about how to understand and characterize eating. This work draws attention to overlooked aspects of the ethical importance of eating, and develops conceptual tools for analyzing the effects of eating on the self that can be deployed in a variety of contexts including food ethics, clinical ethics, diet research, and public conversations about eating.
    Description
    Ph.D.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1055014
    Date Published
    2019
    Subject
    bioethics; eating; food; food ethics; philosophy of food; self; Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy; Ethics;
    Type
    thesis
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    196 leaves
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