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Autore |
Gremillion Helen <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Feeding anorexia : gender and power at a treatment center / / Helen Gremillion |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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9786613064653 |
9781283064651 |
1283064650 |
9780822385011 |
0822385015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anorexia nervosa - Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: In fitness and in health -- Crafting resourceful bodies and achieving identities -- Minimal mothers and psychiatric discourse about the family -- Hierarchy, power, and gender in the "therapeutic family" -- "Typical patients are not 'borderline'": embedded constructs of race, ethnicity, and class. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse. |
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