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Sander L. Gilman on our Fear of Mental Illness

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Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of psychiatry at Emory University, is a cultural and literary historian. Here he explains the stigma of obesity in the U.S., why we inflate trends of ill health into epidemics, and why we might just want to maintain society’s vices.

June 7, 2009  |  In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech

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