| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) |
| Series |
Food, nutrition, and culture ; volume 4 |
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Food, nutrition, and culture ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
The person : working with interviews -- Medicine : reworking Cartesian knowledge -- The stories : respecting diversity -- Bioculturalism : seeing holistically and historically -- Bodily bent : the individual's constitution -- The activity : how ascetic doing takes over -- The core : elementary anorexia -- Youth : how adolescence invites anorexia -- Coming of age : meeting an imagined real world -- Virtuous eating : a modern morality -- The conflicted body : sympathy and control as competing virtues -- The attractive person : a modern appearance ethic -- Getting out : undoing anorexia -- Staying out : redoing life -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders--dieting, exercising, healthy eating--start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous--those eager for challenge and change. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anorexia nervosa -- Psychological aspects
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Nutritional anthropology.
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Anorexia Nervosa -- psychology
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Anorexia Nervosa -- etiology
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Anorexia Nervosa -- psychology -- Personal Narratives
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Anorexia Nervosa -- etiology -- Personal Narratives
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Anorexia nervosa -- Psychological aspects
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Nutritional anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Van Esterik, Penny, author.
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| ISBN |
9781782384564 |
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1782384561 |
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