num_pages: 192
description: The author combines a history of the disease, anorexia nervosa--first diagnosed three hundred years ago--and an account of her own battle against and hard-won victory over the disease. Giving an account of her own experiences growing up with anorexia, the author show how self-starvation is affected by one's own esteem, one's mother's and other people's views on what a woman ought to look like and shows that it is a problem still not fully understood.
language: English
title: The Art of Starvation: An Adolescence Observed
titlecomplete: The Art of Starvation: An Adolescence Observed
genres: Nonfiction, Psychology
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Random House, Incorporated