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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia - Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Richard A. O'Connor
From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia - Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Richard A. O'Connor
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.
264 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 1, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781782384557 |
Publishers | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 252 |
Dimensions | 161 × 238 × 24 mm · 508 g |
Language | English |
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