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Author:   Rebecca J. Lester
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520385740

ISBN 10:   0520385748
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue 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

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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 *

"""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 *"

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 *

Author Information

Rebecca J. Lester is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed clinical social worker. She is the author of numerous academic articles and the award-winning book Jesus in Our Wombs.  

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