1st Edition
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?
Eating disorders that were once viewed as exclusive to specific class and ethnic boundaries in western culture are now spreading worldwide. This issue is fully discussed in this groundbreaking volume.
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition is written by an international group of authors to address the recent emergence of eating... Read more
Gordon, Eating Disorders East and West: A Culture-bound Syndrome Unbound. Commentators: Palmer, Van Esterik. Szabo, Le Grange, Eating Disorders and the Politics of Identity. Commentators: Swartz, Skårderud. Lee, Fat Phobia in Anorexia Nervosa - Whose Obsession Is It? Commentators: Littlewood, Fabrega, Jnr. Bulik, Eating Disorders: Integrating Nature and Nurture Through the Study of Twins. Commentators: Park, Gorwood. Rathner, Post-communism and the Marketing of the Thin Ideal. Commentators: Gotbaum. Bisaga. Cantina, Emerging Markets..Submerging Women. Commentators: Eisler, King Vance. Roggiero, One Country: Two Cultures. Commentators: Neumärker, Bauer. Meehan, Katzman, Argentina: The Social Body at Risk. Commentators: Piran, Gunew. Nasser, Di Nicola, Changing Bodies, Changing Cultures: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Body as the Final Frontier. Commentators: MacLeod, Mumford.
Biography
Mervat Nasser, Melanie Katzman, Richard Gordon
'This book offers an appreciation of the complexity of the forces that shape human behaviour, and influence the constructs we hold regarding health and pathology.' - Sunita Stewart, PhD, Director of Cross-Cultural Research, Bob Smith MD Centre for Research in Pediatric Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas, USA
'This book is a milestone as it is the first to open a dialectical debate.' - Professor Janet Treasure, Guys Kings and Thomas Medical School, UK
'Moves beyond the safe harbour of cataloguing scientific evidence from the perspective of only one discipline and invites the reader to imagine new paradigms and research methods.' - Ruth Striegel-Moore, Professor of Psychology, Weslyn University, USA
