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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia
PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER
Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews
Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge
Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity
Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically
Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual’s Constitution
Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over
Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia
PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER
Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia
Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World
PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA
Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality
Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues
Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic
PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE
Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia
Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life
Epilogue
References
From Virtue to Vice
Negotiating Anorexia
Richard A. O' Connor and Penny van Esterik
252 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-455-7 Hb Published (March 2015)
eISBN 978-1-78238-456-4 eBook