Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

by Rebecca J. Lester

Book Overview

When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old--and again when she was eighteen--she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders--their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination.

Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520303938
• ISBN13: 9780520303935
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"