From Virtue to Vice (eBook)

Penny Van Esterik is a retired Professor of Anthropology from York University where she taught nutritional anthropology, advocacy anthropology and feminist theory. Past books include Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy, Materializing Thailand, and Food and Culture: A Reader (edited with Carole Counihan).

Richard A. O'Connor is Biehl Professor of International Studies and Anthropology at The University of the South. He has held postdoctoral awards nationally (Fulbright, SSRC-ACLS, NEH) and abroad (Kyoto University and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia

PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER

Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews
Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge
Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity
Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically
Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual’s Constitution
Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over
Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia

PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER

Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia
Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World

PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA

Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality
Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues
Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic

PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE

Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia
Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life

Epilogue

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