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From virtue to vice : negotiating anorexia / Richard A. O'Connor and Penny Van Esterik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Richard A., author.
- Van Esterik, Penny, author.
- Series:
- Food, nutrition, and culture ; v. 4.
- Food, nutrition, and culture ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anorexia nervosa--Psychological aspects.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Anorexia Nervosa--psychology.
- Anorexia Nervosa--etiology.
- Nutritional anthropology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anorexia Nervosa--psychology.
- Anorexia Nervosa--etiology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2015.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782384557
- 1782384553
- OCLC:
- 896861898
- Publisher Number:
- 99968433782
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