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Famished
Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
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Rebecca J. Lester
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2019
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When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination.
Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
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Contributor: Rebecca J. Lester
Rebecca J. Lester is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed clinical social worker. She is the author of numerous academic articles and the award-winning book Jesus in Our Wombs.
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CONTENTS
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Prologue
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Preface
xv - SECTION ONE. Provocations
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1. Introduction
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Roller-Skating
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2. Rethinking Eating Disorders
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Little Debbie
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3. Eating Disorders as Technologies of Presence
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For the Ladies
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4. Identifying the Problem: When Is an Eating Disorder (Not) an Eating Disorder?
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Spinning
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5. A Hell That Saves You: Cedar Grove’s Staff and Programs
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Lettuce Sandwich
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6. Fixing Time: Chronicity, Recovery, and Trajectories of Care at Cedar Grove
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Liquidated
175 - SECTION THREE. Dynamics
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Introduction
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7. Loosening the Ties That Bind: Unmooring
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Mortifications
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8. Me, Myself, and Ed: Recalibrating
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Calculated Risks
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9. “Fat” Is Not a Feeling: Developing New Ways of Presencing
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Looking for the Exit
274 - SECTION FOUR. Recursions
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10. Running on Empty: Relationships of Care in a Culture of Deprivation
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Breaking
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11. Capitalizing on Care: Precarity, Vulnerability, and Failed Subjects
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Spark
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12. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Afterword
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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Keywords for this book
examination of eating disorders; rethinking of eating disorders; why people develop eating disorders; process of recovery; why treatments often fail; almost died from anorexia nervosa; cultural analysis; therapeutic accounts; autobiographical reflections; world of eating disorders; history; diagnosis; treatment; lived realities; place in american cultural imagination; fierce; vulnerable; critical; hopeful; anorexia nervosa; eating disorders
