Quando la fame smette di essere una prova: GLP-1, volontà delegata e nuova morale del controllo alimentare

Titolo Rivista SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Autori/Curatori Angelo Falzarano
Pubblicazione Online First 16/10/2026 Fascicolo 2026/Online First
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 16 P. 1-16 Dimensione file 357 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2026-22901
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This article offers a sociological interpretation of GLP-1 drugs beyond their therapeutic di-mension. Rather than assessing the clinical efficacy of pharmacologically assisted weight loss, it examines how these drugs intervene in the moral grammar of food control. Drawing on the sociology of food and on theories of incorporation, medicalization, and government of the self, the paper argues that GLP-1 drugs reshape the relationship between hunger, willpower, and bodily discipline. If modern food culture has constructed appetite control as proof of self-governance, pharmacological appetite modulation introduces a configuration in which control can be achieved by reducing the intensity of desire in advance. Through the concept of “del-egated will,” the article interprets this shift as a reorganization of food morality: individual responsibility does not disappear, but is rearticulated through pharmacological devices that redefine merit, self-control, and the legitimacy of bodily governance.

Parole chiave:GLP-1; sociology of food; medicalization; self-control; biopolitics; delegated will. Parole chiave: GLP-1; sociologia dell’alimentazione; medicalizzazione; autocontrollo; bio-politica; volontà delegata.

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Angelo Falzarano, Quando la fame smette di essere una prova: GLP-1, volontà delegata e nuova morale del controllo alimentare in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" Online First/2026, pp 1-16, DOI: 10.3280/SES2026-22901