Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic : Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciolli, Giulia.

Series:

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Series

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Series ; v.19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eating disorders--Treatment.

Eating disorders.

Medical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The first book-length qualitative study of eating disorder treatment in a European country with a national healthcare system. The first book-length ethnography that brings together the voices of patients, healthcare professionals and families during and after treatment. The first ethnographic book to address the specific difficulties posed by the growing number of preadolescent patients, a recent and increasingly alarming phenomenon.

Contents:

Practices of Carein an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Thinking about Eating Disorders through Anthropology, and the Other Way Around

Chapter 1. Into the Field: History, Methods and Research Ethics

Chapter 2. If Food Is the Symptom, What Is the Problem? Tensions and Fractures

Chapter 3. From Coercion to Responsibility: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Minds, Transforming Selves

Chapter 4. 'We Are a Relational Laboratory': Kinship as a Therapeutic Tool

Chapter 5. Treating Patients 'Who Don't Speak': The Challenge of Treating Children

Chapter 6. When 'Things Don't Work': Chronicity, Comorbidity and the Limits of Care

Conclusion. The Social That Hurts

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-526-X

OCLC:

1583181273