Competing Cultural Discourses of GLP-1 Agonists: An Application of Relational Dialectics Theory.

As GLP-1 medications become more available and FDA approved in a number of cases, discourses related to their use by individuals for purposes of weight loss and management permeate social life. Prominently, weight management is often positioned in society and researched as a private matter of individual choice, behavior, and responsibility. Relational dialectics theory posits culturally dominant discourses and marginalized discourses to be in constant flux with power as central to meaning construction.