Demonstrates how "The Recovered" possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Describes how activity disorders start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. Portrays developmental disorders, where those eager for challenge and change, get a distorted life instead.
Demonstrates how "The Recovered" possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Describes how activity disorders start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. Portrays developmental disorders, where those eager for challenge and change, get a distorted life instead.
Penny Van Esterik is a retired Professor of Anthropology from York University where she taught nutritional anthropology, advocacy anthropology and feminist theory. Past books include Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy, Materializing Thailand, and Food and Culture: A Reader (edited with Carole Counihan).
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual's Constitution Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life Epilogue References
Acknowledgements Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual's Constitution Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life Epilogue References
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