From fasting saints to anorexic girls : the history of self starvation

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From fasting saints to anorexic girls : the history of self starvation

Walter Vandereycken & Ron van Deth

Athlone Press, 1994

統一タイトル

Hungerkünstler, fastenwunder, magersucht

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巻冊次

ISBN 9780485240108

内容説明

Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of saints, in hunger strikes, in the exhibition of living skeletons and hunger artists, and in the fate of melancholics, hysterics, the possessed and bewitched. This history culminates in the 19th century with the labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which attracts many theories and explanations and vast literature, in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a fashionable disease. This account is of both clinical and historical importance and should interest anyone concerned with the interactions of culture and the individual.

目次

  • A mirror of time and culture
  • holy fasts
  • possession and witchcraft
  • miraculous maidens
  • hunger artists and living skeletons
  • food abstinence - medical mystery and therapy
  • food abstinence and emaciation as signs of an illness
  • who was the first to describe anorexia nervosa?
  • self-starvation in the hands of physicians
  • the Victorian roots of anorexia nervosa
  • morbid miracle or miraculous morbidity?.
巻冊次

ISBN 9780485241006

内容説明

Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger strikes; in the exhibition of iving skeletons and hunger artists; in the fate of melancholica, hystericsm the possessed and bewitched. This strange story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations and a vast literature, the course of which a medical curiosityhas been transformed into a modern disease. In the history of psyhiatry this is a remarkable account, of great clinical ad historical importance, which will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of culture and the individual. Walter Vandereycken, an international authority on the research and treatment of eating disorders, is Professor of Psychiatry at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Ron Van Deth is a psychologist in Leiden, the Netherlands.

目次

  • A mirror of time and culture
  • holy fasts
  • possession and witchcraft
  • miraculous maidens
  • hunger artists and living skeletons
  • food abstinence - medical mystery and therapy
  • food abstinence and emaciation as signs of an illness
  • who was the first to describe anorexia nervosa?
  • morbid miracle or miraculous morbidity?

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA23627109
  • ISBN
    • 0485240106
    • 0485241005
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ger
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    viii, 296 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 分類
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