From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls
History of Self-starvation
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2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-485-24010-8 (ISBN)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-485-24010-8 (ISBN)
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Self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - religious fasting and hunger strikes, among others - and culminates in the 19th century with the labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which attracts many theories. This book discusses the interaction of the individual with culture.
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.
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.
A mirror of time and culture; holy fasts; possession and witchcraft; miraculous maidens; hunger artists and living skeletons; food abstinence - medical mystery and therapy; food abstinence and emaciation as signs of an illness; who was the first to describe anorexia nervosa?; self-starvation in the hands of physicians; the Victorian roots of anorexia nervosa; morbid miracle or miraculous morbidity?.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2000 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | references, index |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychosomatik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-485-24010-6 / 0485240106 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-485-24010-8 / 9780485240108 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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