Eating Disorders : Anatomy of a Social Epidemic Paperback - 2000
by Gordon, Richard
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- Title Eating Disorders : Anatomy of a Social Epidemic
- Author Gordon, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Oxford
- Date 2000-04-07
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10127729-6
- ISBN 9780631214960 / 0631214968
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6 x 0.91 in (22.96 x 15.24 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Eating disorders - Social aspects, Anorexia nervosa - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99016396
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
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From the rear cover
The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies. Richard Gordon brings together historical and cultural perspectives, as well as his own clinical experience, in order to examine the sociocultural roots of this apparent epidemic. The high incidence of these once rare conditions in contemporary societies can be traced to a number of interrelated factors: the changing role of women, the increasingly difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood, the social importance attached to physical beauty which focuses on thin body shape, a general pursuit of health and fitness and, ironically, the glamorization of anorexia in the mass media which has made its symptoms fashionable.
