Eating Disorders: Anatomy of a Social Epidemic

Author:   Richard Gordon (Bard College, New York)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780631214960


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   24 December 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Eating Disorders: Anatomy of a Social Epidemic


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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.

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Author:   Richard Gordon (Bard College, New York)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780631214960


ISBN 10:   0631214968
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   24 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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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.

Reviews

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.


"""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."


Author Information

Richard A. Gordon is Professor of Psychology at Bard College and is a practising clinical psychologist. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of eating disorders and has treated anorexic and bulimic patients in clinical practice for the past 20 years.

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