Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A refreshing perspective on the realities and challenges one faces when living with an eating disorder.... Recommended." * CHOICE *
"Impressive and exhaustive.... Those who treat, study, or are afflicted with an eating disorder in the family will find excellent resources here." * Truthdig *
“This is psychological anthropology at its best.” * Anthropology News *
“Lester offers one of the most compassionate, realistic, nuanced examinations of the complexity of ED care and patients I have read. Her book presents a much-needed discourse exemplifying how the American treatment landscape fails patients and perpetuates illness.”
* Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *
Table of ContentsPrologue
Preface
SECTION ONE • PROVOCATIONS
1 • Introduction
Roller-Skating
2 • Rethinking Eating Disorders
Little Debbie
3 • Eating Disorders as Technologies of Presence
For the Ladies
SECTION TWO • FRAMEWORKS
4 • Identifying the Problem: When Is an Eating Disorder
(Not) an Eating Disorder?
Spinning
5 • A Hell That Saves You: Cedar Grove’s
Staff and Programs
Lettuce Sandwich
6 • Fixing Time: Chronicity, Recovery, and Trajectories
of Care at Cedar Grove
Liquidated
7 • Loosening the Ties That Bind: Unmooring
Mortifications
8 • Me, Myself, and Ed: Recalibrating
Calculated Risks
9 • “Fat” Is Not a Feeling: Developing New Ways of Presencing
Looking for the Exit
SECTION FOUR• RECURSIONS
10 • Running on Empty: Relationships of Care in a Culture of Deprivation
Breaking
11 • Capitalizing on Care: Precarity, Vulnerability, and Failed Subjects
Spark
12 • Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here?
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
