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Feeding anorexiaHelen Gremillion

Feeding anorexia

Helen Gremillion
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This is an in-depth study of a psychiatric programme for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics reproduce discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.

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4 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2003
    Duke University Press · 277 pages · 9780822331339
  • Paperback · English · 2003
    Duke University Press · 277 pages · 9780822331209
  • Other · English · 2003
    Duke University Press · 300 pages · 9780822385011
  • Other · English · 2003
    Duke University Press · 9781283064651
Anorexia nervosaSocial aspectsPatientsRehabilitationPsychiatric hospitalsSociological aspectsSocial EnvironmentFeminism