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negotiating anorexia

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From virtue to vice

negotiating anorexia

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Publisher
Berghahn
Language
English
Pages
241

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Food, nutrition, and culture -- volume 4, Food, nutrition, and culture -- v. 4.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.85/262
Library of Congress
RC552.A5 O26 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 241 pages
Number of pages
241

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31040733M
ISBN 10
1782384553
ISBN 13
9781782384557, 9781782384564
LCCN
2014033557
OCLC/WorldCat
896861898

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL23206341W

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