Eating Disorders

Anatomy of a Social Epidemic
2. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-631-21496-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.

Preface.

1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder.

2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.

3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders.

4. A Conflicted Female Identity.

5. The Thin Body Ideal.

6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise.

7. The Templates of a Disease.

8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard A. Gordon is Professor of Psychology at Bard College and is a practising clinical psychologist. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of eating disorders and has treated anorexic and bulimic patients in clinical practice for the past 20 years.