Eating Disorders

Anatomy of a Social Epidemic

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-24
Mått:152 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780631214960

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Ätstörningar inom Medicin
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.

Innehållsförteckning

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.