Feeding Anorexia Gender and Power at a Treatment Center |
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| Author:
| Gremillion, Helen |
| Series title: | Body, Commodity, Text Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-3133-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $107.95 |
Book Description:
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An in-depth ethnographic study of a psychiatric program for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics often unwittingly reproduce the discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.
An in-depth ethnographic study of a psychiatric program for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics often unwittingly reproduce the discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.