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Book Synopsis
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.

Trade Review
"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.

Table of Contents
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.

Eating Disorders

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 24 December 1999
      ISBN-13 9780631214960
      978-0631214960
      ISBN-10 0631214968
      Also in:
      Eating disorders and therapy Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Social research and statistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.

      Table of Contents
      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.

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