From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: History of Self-starvation - Hardcover

Vandereycken, Walter; Deth, Ron Van; Van Deth, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0485240106 ISBN 13: 9780485240108

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

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Book by Vandereycken Walter

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Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of saints, in hunger strikes, in the exhibition of living skeletons and hunger artists, and in the fate of melancholics, hysterics, the possessed and bewitched. This history culminates in the 19th century with the labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which attracts many theories and explanations and vast literature, in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a fashionable disease. This account is of both clinical and historical importance and should interest anyone concerned with the interactions of culture and the individual.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485240106
• ISBN 13: 9780485240108
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280