Publication

2003-06-01 - Duke University Press

Language

English

Word Count

69,250 words, Guess

Page Count

277 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002155155
  • Goodreads1012203
  • LibraryThing1472191

Classifications

  • LCCRC552.A5 G746 2003

Description

This is an in-depth study of a psychiatric programme for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics reproduce discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.

First Sentence

This chapter explores the ways in which patients diagnosed with anorexia and the clinicians and staff who work with them construe bodies as resources for fitness and health.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Body, Commodity, Text

Other Editions

  • Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment CenterPaperbackDuke University Press2003-06-01

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