Eating Disorders

Anatomy of a Social Epidemic

Richard Gordon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

1999 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21496-0 (ISBN)

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In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.

Richard A. Gordon is Professor of Psychology at Bard College and is a practising clinical psychologist. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of eating disorders and has treated anorexic and bulimic patients in clinical practice for the past 20 years.

Acknowledgements. Preface.

1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder.

2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.

3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders.

4. A Conflicted Female Identity.

5. The Thin Body Ideal.

6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise.

7. The Templates of a Disease.

8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.1999
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 231 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychosomatik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-631-21496-8 / 0631214968
ISBN-13	978-0-631-21496-0 / 9780631214960
Zustand	Neuware