From virtue to vice : negotiating anorexia /
The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders--dieting, exercising, healthy eating--start as virtuous practices, but beco...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2015.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
ISBN: | 9781782384564 1782384561 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.