Eating Disorders 2e
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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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.
Preface to the Second EditionPrefaceAcknowledgments1Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder12Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa143Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders574A Conflicted Female Identity945The Thin Body Ideal1176The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise1407The Templates of a Disease1668The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders189Notes215Index276
\ From the Publisher"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.\ \ \
