From virtue to vice : negotiating anorexia /

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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 beco...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: O'Connor, Richard A. (Author), Van Esterik, Penny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2015.
Series:Food, nutrition, and culture ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Anorexia nervosa > Psychological aspects.
Nutritional anthropology.
Anorexia Nervosa > psychology
Anorexia Nervosa > etiology
Anorexia Nervosa > psychology > Personal Narratives.
Anorexia Nervosa > etiology > Personal Narratives.
Anorexie mentale > Aspect psychologique.
Anthropologie de l'alimentation.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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