From Virtue to Vice : : Negotiating Anorexia / / Penny Van Esterik, Richard A. O'Connor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: O'Connor, Richard A.,; Esterik, Penny Van,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia --; SECTION 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 --; SECTION II The Life Cycle: A Developmental Disorder --; CHAPTER 8 Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia --; CHAPTER 9 Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World --; SECTION 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 --; SECTION IV Recovery: Finding Balance --; CHAPTER 13 Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia --; CHAPTER 14 Staying Out: Redoing Life --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782384564; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782384564?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Penny Van Esterik, Richard A. O'Connor.

The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders—dieting, exercising, healthy eating—start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous—those eager for challenge and change. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.