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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia (Food, Nutrition, and Culture, Band 4)

O'Connor, Richard A.; Esterik, Penny Van

 
9781782384557: From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia (Food, Nutrition, and Culture, Band 4)

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Demonstrates how "The Recovered" possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Describes how activity disorders start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. Portrays developmental disorders, where those eager for challenge and change, get a distorted life instead.

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Penny Van Esterik is a retired Professor of Anthropology from York University where she taught nutritional anthropology, advocacy anthropology and feminist theory. Past books include Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy, Materializing Thailand, and Food and Culture: A Reader (edited with Carole Counihan).

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