Feeding anorexia gender and power at a treatment center

A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gremillion, Helen, 1965- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2003.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798346306719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In fitness and in health
  • Crafting resourceful bodies and achieving identities
  • Minimal mothers and psychiatric discourse about the family
  • Hierarchy, power, and gender in the "therapeutic family"
  • "Typical patients are not 'borderline'": embedded constructs of race, ethnicity, and class.