Author

Publication

1986 - Norton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

50,250 words, Guess

Page Count

201 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC616.85/2
  • LCCRC552.A5 O73 1986
  • LCCRC552.A5O73 1986

Description

This is Susie Orbach’s classic text on anorexia, where for the first time the myths and misconceptions of an emerging cultural epidemic were dispelled. Since its initial publication in 1986, Hunger Strike has been at the center of the debate over anorexia. This beautifully repackaged edition includes Susie Orbach’s 1993 introduction, which discusses more recent attitudes toward eating problems and how they have changed over the last several years, and a revised final chapter, in which she proposes an innovative approach to residential treatment that utilizes the meanings of anorexia to the sufferer as a basis for therapy.

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Other Editions

  • Hunger strike: the anorectic's struggle as a metaphor for our ageNorton1986-01-01

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