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Author O'Connor, Richard A., author.

Title From virtue to vice : negotiating anorexia / Richard A. O'Connor and Penny Van Esterik.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Food, nutrition, and culture ; volume 4
Food, nutrition, and culture ; v. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
Contents Person : working with interviews -- Medicine : reworking Cartesian knowledge -- Stories : respecting diversity -- Bioculturalism : seeing holistically and historically -- Bodily bent : the individual's constitution -- Activity : how ascetic doing takes over -- Core : elementary anorexia -- Youth : how adolescence invites anorexia -- Coming of age : meeting an imagined real world -- Virtuous eating : a modern morality -- Conflicted body : sympathy and control as competing virtues -- Attractive person : a modern appearance ethic -- Getting out : undoing anorexia -- Staying out : redoing life -- Epilogue.
Summary The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders--dieting, exercising, healthy eating--start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous--those eager for challenge and change. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.
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Subject Anorexia nervosa -- Psychological aspects.
Anorexia nervosa -- Psychological aspects.
Anorexia nervosa.
Nutritional anthropology.
Nutritional anthropology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Added Author Van Esterik, Penny, author.
Other Form: Print version: O'Connor, Richard A. From virtue to vice 9781782384557 (DLC) 2014033557 (OCoLC)896861898
ISBN 9781782384564 (electronic book)
1782384561 (electronic book)
9781782384557
1782384553