Nyhet

Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic

Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics

AvGiulia Sciolli

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

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Beskrivning

The complexities of the relationship between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy. By examining the practices and ethics of care that attempt to reconcile the patients’, family carers’, and the professionals’ conflicting notions about eating disorders, this book explores how bodies are both material in their sociality and social in their materiality. Food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions, as healthcare professionals tackle the patient’s kinship relationships for intervention. Ultimately, kinship makes and unmakes people through food.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836955245

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ätstörningar inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Giulia Sciolli is Researcher at the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the Italian National Research Council. She has edited an interdisciplinary volume on the relationship between care and coercion titled Cure che costringono, costrizioni che curano (2024, CNR Edizioni).

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Into the FieldChapter 2. If Food Is the Symptom, What Is the Problem?Chapter 3. From Coercion to Responsibility: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Minds, Transforming SelvesChapter 4. ‘We are a relational laboratory’: Kinship as a Therapeutic ToolChapter 5. Treating Patients ‘who don’t speak’: The Challenge of Treating ChildrenChapter 6. When ‘things don’t work’: Chronicity, Comorbidity and the Limits of CareConclusion: The Social that HurtsReferencesIndex