From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation
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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation

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Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of saints, in hunger strikes, in the exhibition of living skeletons and hunger artists, and in the fate of melancholics, hysterics, the possessed and bewitched. This history culminates in the 19th century with the labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condi...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published January 1st 2001 by Athlone Press
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