The conflicting notions and experiences of eating disorders from patients, family carers and professionals must be reconciled when treating these conditions. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of the practices and ethics of care which are attempted by clinicians in a public treatment centre in Italy. Food and family emerge aligned in both the production and treatment of eating disorders, as healthcare professionals tackle the kinship relationships of patients in order to intervene in their eating behaviour and its impact on their bodies. Ultimately, the book rethinks existing understandings of the relationship between food and kinship, showing how kinship makes and unmakes people through food.
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Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics
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Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics
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Table of contents
- Practices of Carein an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
- Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Thinking about Eating Disorders through Anthropology, and the Other Way Around
- Chapter 1. Into the Field: History, Methods and Research Ethics
- Chapter 2. If Food Is the Symptom, What Is the Problem? Tensions and Fractures
- Chapter 3. From Coercion to Responsibility: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Minds, Transforming Selves
- Chapter 4. ‘We Are a Relational Laboratory’: Kinship as a Therapeutic Tool
- Chapter 5. Treating Patients ‘Who Don’t Speak’: The Challenge of Treating Children
- Chapter 6. When ‘Things Don’t Work’: Chronicity, Comorbidity and the Limits of Care
- Conclusion. The Social That Hurts
- References
- Index
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