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- Title: Holy Anorexia
- Author : Rudolph M. Bell
- Release Date : January 09, 2014
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,History,Europe,Christianity,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7709 KB
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Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes.
âEveryone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the definition of disease is. I will never look at an anorexic patient in the same way again.ââHoward Spiro, M.D., Gastroenterology
â[This] book is a first-class social history and is well-documented both in its historical and scientific portions.ââVern L. Bullough, American Historical Review
âA significant contribution to revisionist history, which re-examines events in light of feminist thought. . . . Bell is particularly skillful in describing behavior within its time and culture, which would be bizarre by todayâs norms, without reducing it to the pathological.ââMary Lassance Parthun, Toronto Globe and Mail
âBell is both enlightened and convincing. His book is impressively researched, easy to read, and utterly fascinating.ââSheila MacLeod, New Statesman
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