Famished : eating disorders and failed care in America /

"When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old--and again when she was eighteen--she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders--their history, diagnosis,...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lester, Rebecca J., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Eating disorders > Treatment > Wisconsin > Cedar Grove.
Eating disorders > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eating disorders > Social aspects.
Feeding and Eating Disorders > therapy
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Traitement > Aspect moral.
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Eating disorders > Treatment.
Wisconsin > Cedar Grove.
almost died from anorexia nervosa.
anorexia nervosa.
autobiographical reflections.
critical.
cultural analysis.
diagnosis.
eating disorders.
examination of eating disorders.
fierce.
history.
hopeful.
lived realities.
place in american cultural imagination.
process of recovery.
rethinking of eating disorders.
therapeutic accounts.
treatment.
vulnerable.
why people develop eating disorders.
why treatments often fail.
world of eating disorders.
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