10. Running on Empty: Relationships of Care in a Culture of Deprivation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Prologue xi
4. Preface xv
5. SECTION ONE. Provocations
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. Roller-Skating 30
8. 2. Rethinking Eating Disorders 31
9. Little Debbie 62
10. 3. Eating Disorders as Technologies of Presence 63
11. For the Ladies 85
12. SECTION TWO. Frameworks
13. 4. Identifying the Problem: When Is an Eating Disorder (Not) an Eating Disorder? 87
14. Spinning 109
15. 5. A Hell That Saves You: Cedar Grove’s Staff and Programs 110
16. Lettuce Sandwich 142
17. 6. Fixing Time: Chronicity, Recovery, and Trajectories of Care at Cedar Grove 143
18. Liquidated 175
19. SECTION THREE. Dynamics
20. Introduction 177
21. 7. Loosening the Ties That Bind: Unmooring 183
22. Mortifications 214
23. 8. Me, Myself, and Ed: Recalibrating 215
24. Calculated Risks 242
25. 9. “Fat” Is Not a Feeling: Developing New Ways of Presencing 243
26. Looking for the Exit 274
27. SECTION FOUR. Recursions
28. 10. Running on Empty: Relationships of Care in a Culture of Deprivation 275
29. Breaking 303
30. 11. Capitalizing on Care: Precarity, Vulnerability, and Failed Subjects 305
31. Spark 321
32. 12. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? 322
33. Afterword 331
34. Acknowledgments 337
35. Notes 339
36. Works Cited 357
37. Index 371