Medical and Health Humanities

In this article I will discuss the human body, both physical and social, as an instrument of political and aesthetic power and will analyze the processes of its social construction.

The purpose of this study was to better understand the connections between how Black girls define health, various body types and the ways in which they rationalise their healthy behaviours.

It is widely accepted that the notions of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ are socially constructed: they refer in other words to culturally shaped conceptions of identity that may or may not have any specific relationship to underlying genetic or visible phenotypical characteristics of the individuals or groups in question.