From virtue to vice
Subtitle: negotiating anorexia
By: by Richard A. O'Connor and Penny Van Esterik
Contributors: Van Esterik, Penny, author
Series: Food, nutrition, and culture -- volume 4; Food, nutrition, and culture -- v. 4.
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781782384557; 9781782384564
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa; Psychological aspects; Anorexia Nervosa; Personal Narratives; Psychology; Etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: The person : working with interviews; title: Medicine : reworking Cartesian knowledge; title: The stories : respecting diversity; title: Bioculturalism : seeing holistically and historically; title: Bodily bent : the individual's constitution; title: The activity : how ascetic doing takes over; title: The core : elementary anorexia; title: Youth : how adolescence invites anorexia; title: Coming of age : meeting an imagined real world; title: Virtuous eating : a modern morality; title: The conflicted body : sympathy and control as competing virtues; title: The attractive person : a modern appearance ethic; title: Getting out : undoing anorexia; title: Staying out : redoing life; title: Epilogue.