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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls

By Walter Vandereycken

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls Medicine

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls

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Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of saints, in hunger strikes, in the exhibition of living skeletons and hunger artists, and in the fate of melancholics, hysterics, the possessed and bewitched. This history culminates in the 19th century with the labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which attracts many theories and explanations and vast literature, in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a fashionable disease. This account is of both clinical and historical importance and should interest anyone concerned with the interactions of culture and the individual.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
308
Release Date:
2001-01-30
Publication Date:
2001-01-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0485241005
ISBN13:
9780485241006
Weight:
390 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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