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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation (Eating Disorders)
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls The History of SelfStarvation - Eating Disorders
Author: Walter Vandereycken, Ron Van Deth
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780485241006
ISBN-10: 0485241005
Publication Date: 1/1/2001
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Type: Paperback
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