Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease



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Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Language: English
Page: 368
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0674295013, 9780674295018
Publisher: Harvard University Press

From Library Journal

Historian Brumberg (Cornell) has produced an excellent study of anorexia nervosa from a Medieval form of sacred possession, to a Victorian curiosity, to a modern condition that experts cannot establish as a disease, neurosis, or socially induced condition. Using historical, medical, literary, and popular sources, Brumberg examines the role of healing professionals in defining the condition; the bourgeois values which demanded that upwardly mobile women appear unfit for productive and reproductive work; and the struggle for moral authority over 19th-century fasting girls that evolved between men of science and religion. Superbly written, meticulously researched, thoughtfully illustrated, and highly recommended for most libraries. Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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