Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836955245 (ISBN)
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The complexities of the relationship between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy. By examining the practices and ethics of care that attempt to reconcile the patients’, family carers’, and the professionals’ conflicting notions about eating disorders, this book explores how bodies are both material in their sociality and social in their materiality. Food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions, as healthcare professionals tackle the patient’s kinship relationships for intervention. Ultimately, kinship makes and unmakes people through food.
Giulia Sciolli is Researcher at the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the Italian National Research Council. She has edited an interdisciplinary volume on the relationship between care and coercion titled Cure che costringono, costrizioni che curano (2024, CNR Edizioni).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Into the Field
Chapter 2. If Food Is the Symptom, What Is the Problem?
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Wyse Social Anthropology ; 19 |
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychosomatik |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781836955245 / 9781836955245 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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