ABSTRACT Using autoethnography and configuring narrative reflections, this article interrogates my personal experiences as a man whose body has been changed by bariatric surgery. The autoethnographic account engages questions relating to family, health history, community, and identity. The narrative reflections are embodied memories that testify to a family history of obesity and diabetes that foreground the challenges faced by those who are faced with the radical option of weight-loss surgery to save their lives. The narrative reflections propose to transform our understanding of bariatric surgery and is consistent with others’ stories in communication scholarship that privileges personal experience within health care. Questions for future research include the unresolved roles of gender and biological sex in the creation of an altered narrative understanding of the obese self.

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减肥手术、家庭和身份：一项自我民族志调查

摘要 本文使用自我民族志和配置叙事反思，询问了我作为一个身体因减肥手术而改变的人的个人经历。自主民族志帐户涉及与家庭、健康史、社区和身份有关的问题。叙事反映是具体化的记忆，证明了肥胖和糖尿病的家族史，突出了那些面临减肥手术以挽救生命的激进选择所面临的挑战。叙事反思建议改变我们对减肥手术的理解，并且与传播学术中其他人的故事相一致，这些故事重视医疗保健领域的个人经验。