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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : The History of Self-Starvation by Ron Van Deth and Walter Vandereycken (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-100485241005
ISBN-139780485241006
eBay Product ID (ePID)111987666
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFrom Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : the History of Self-Starvation
SubjectPsychopathology / Eating Disorders, General, Psychiatry / General, History
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Psychology, Medical
AuthorRon Van Deth, Walter Vandereycken
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.85/262/09
Original LanguageGerman
SynopsisDown the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger strikes; in the exhibition of iving skeletons and hunger artists; in the fate of melancholica, hystericsm the possessed and bewitched. This strange story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations and a vast literature, the course of which a medical curiosityhas been transformed into a modern disease. In the history of psyhiatry this is a remarkable account, of great clinical ad historical importance, which will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of culture and the individual. Walter Vandereycken, an international authority on the research and treatment of eating disorders, is Professor of Psychiatry at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Ron Van Deth is a psychologist in Leiden, the Netherlands.
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