Read more
Informationen zum Autor Mervat Nasser, Melanie Katzman, Richard Gordon Klappentext The concept of eating disorder in Western cultures is a familiar one! for which there is considerable evidence. Eating disorders were once viewed as highly culturally-specific illness! limited to the United States and Western Europe and within specific class and ethnic boundaries. However! there is now a growing awareness that this preoccupation with slimness is spreading to non-western cultures. "Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition" analyzes the existing sociocultural model of eating disorder and existing research and clinical work on cross cultural factors in eating pathology in depth. It addresses the emergence of eating disorders in various areas of the world over the last decade including countries in South America! Asia! Africa! and Eastern Europe. Well-known international authors examine the problem in a variety of cultural contexts! arguing that we need to extend both our theoretical understanding of eating disorders and clinical work to account properly for eating disorderson a worldwide scale. This book will be of great interest not only to medical and mental health professionals but also to those interested in processes of cultural transformation and their impact on psychiatric problems. Zusammenfassung Calls for professionals to extend both their theoretical understanding of eating disorders and clinical work to account properly for eating disorders on a world-wide scale. Inhaltsverzeichnis Gordon, Eating Disorders East and West: A Culture-bound Syndrome Unbound. Commentators: Palmer, Van Esterik. Szabo, Le Grange, Eating Disorders and the Politics of Identity. Commentators: Swartz, Skårderud. Lee, Fat Phobia in Anorexia Nervosa - Whose Obsession Is It? Commentators: Littlewood, Fabrega, Jnr. Bulik, Eating Disorders: Integrating Nature and Nurture Through the Study of Twins. Commentators: Park, Gorwood. Rathner, Post-communism and the Marketing of the Thin Ideal. Commentators: Gotbaum. Bisaga. Cantina, Emerging Markets..Submerging Women. Commentators: Eisler, King Vance. Roggiero, One Country: Two Cultures. Commentators: Neumärker, Bauer. Meehan, Katzman, Argentina: The Social Body at Risk. Commentators: Piran, Gunew. Nasser, Di Nicola, Changing Bodies, Changing Cultures: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Body as the Final Frontier. Commentators: MacLeod, Mumford. ...
