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In 1873, Sir William Gull, one of Queen Victoria's personal physicians, published a seminal paper which established the term anorexia nervosa and provided a number of detailed case descriptions and treatments.
1 sty 1988 · An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families.
Mid–20th century developments preceded the 1960–1980s’ improved understanding of suffering and movement toward effective remediation introduced by Dr. Hilde Bruch. Keywords: History of psychiatry, Eating disorders, Anorexia nervosa, Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychotherapy.
30 kwi 2015 · This chapter considers the nature of evidence in historical research on anorexia nervosa (AN). It provides an overview of the history of extreme fasting and AN. The chapter proposes ways in which the ideological and theoretical preferences of doctors influenced their clinical reports.
27 kwi 2016 · The diagnostic label “anorexia nervosa” was not coined until shortly after Sarah Jacob died, but of course a disease can exist prior to being named.
Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the 19th century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural ...
11 gru 2011 · In 1973, Hilde Bruch published a book with a number of case studies, called Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, And The Person Within . As the disorder reached public awareness in...
