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Lasègue contrasted anorexic behaviour to the behaviour of people forced into starvation during the great famine in Paris. Lasegue then described the downward spiral of the anorexic, characterized by indifference, disgust, aversion, and eventually starvation, ill health and possible death.
1 lut 2024 · While describing an anorexic body as looking like someone from a concentration camp is a familiar metaphor today, her archive made clear that it originated in the writings of Jewish doctors like Bruch, who were themselves Holocaust survivors.
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.
24 paź 2024 · Join us on a journey that unravels an often overlooked and misunderstood struggle. Our carefully amassed collection of documentaries delves deeply into the world of eating disorders, providing an unfiltered depiction of their reality.
6 lis 2020 · What do the lives and deaths of five women tell us about how anorexia is managed and treated? "A lucky dip". That is coroner Sean Horstead's frank assessment of the system by which many...
11 gru 2011 · The first descriptions of anorexia nervosa in the Western world date from the 12th and 13th centuries, most famously Saint Catherine of Siena (1), who denied herself food as part of a spiritual...
24 cze 2023 · Signifying the pervasive grip of eating disorders, ‘Thin’ is an HBO documentary directed by Lauren Greenfield. It features the lives of four women who have fostered anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa disorders most of their lives.
