"Fighting Fat is a pithy, readable text that is deeply researched and clearly argued. For Canadian historians, the book connects weight and dieting to other social histories of class, gender, moral regulation, and health. For international scholars, the book provides an interpretive framework for understanding the medical history of "obesity." Mitchinson categorizes and classifies weight in new ways. She names and then deconstructs gaps in medical logic, ambiguities, and failures in clear and explicit terms that can be applied in other national and disciplinary contexts."