Cover art for From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls
Published
Bloomsbury, December 2000
ISBN
9780485241006
Format
Softcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 14cm

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls History of Self-starvation by

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Down the centuries self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger strikes; in the exhibition of living skeletons and hunger-artists; in the fate of melancholics, hysterics, the possessed and bewitched.

This story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a modern disease.

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