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Informationen zum Autor Dr Julie Hepworth is Lecturer in the Department of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Klappentext Julie Hepworth locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context, showing how current practices continue to be influenced by medicine, psychology, ideology and politics. She demonstrates that anorexia nervosa must be considered within the political, social and gendered relationships that continue to contribute to its definition. The book presents the need for a new conceptualization of anorexia nervosa which would draw on the insights of discourse theory, feminism and postmodernism to create new understandings of anorexia nervosa within contemporary health care practices. Zusammenfassung Locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context! showing how practices continue to be influenced by medicine! psychology! ideology and politics. This book argues that anorexia nervosa must be considered within the political! social and gendered relationships that continue to contribute to its definition. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: EARLY IDEAS ABOUT SELF-STARVATION AND ANOREXIA NERVOSA From Religion to Madness Religious and Medical Interpretations of Self-Starvation The Late Nineteenth-Century Medical Discovery of Anorexia Nervosa Early Social, Cultural and Feminist Theories of Anorexia Nervosa PART TWO: HEALTH CARE WORKERS¿ CONSTRUCTION OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA Constructions of Gender and Identity in Anorexia Nervosa The Multiplicity and Diversity of Causes of Anorexia Nervosa Clinical Treatments for Anorexia Nervosa PART THREE: POSTMODERNISM, THE BODY, AND THERAPY: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE Anorexia Nervosa, Postmodern Readings of the Body and Narrative Therapy Self, Psychotherapy and Participation in the Public Domain
