Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease
Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease
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禁食女孩：神经性厌食症作为一种现代疾病的出现
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10.2307/204058
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1988
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J. Brumberg
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作者：
J. Brumberg
在美国，神经性厌食症可能会影响多达5%到10%的青春期女孩，在一些大学校园里，估计高达20%。然而，尽管这种疾病最近很受欢迎，但它的病因仍然令人费解，而且顽固地抵抗治疗。因为，正如禁食女孩所展示的那样，神经性厌食症在我们目前专注于苗条的身体之前就已经存在了很久。这部里程碑式的获奖作品为神经性厌食症的谜团提供了一个解决方案，探索了它的历史根源，从中世纪的禁食圣徒和维多利亚时代好奇的“禁食女孩”到我们这个时代痴迷于体重的名人。通过将广泛的文化力量与个人的生物医学和心理因素联系起来，《禁食女孩》展示了一个认为女性“永远不会太富有或太瘦”的社会实际上是如何招募某些青少年患上厌食症的--那些认为苗条的身体是一种完美状态的人。再加上其他社会压力，这种态度将越来越多的当代年轻女性置于危险之中。高度可读性和权威性的《禁食女孩》将读者带入过去患者的私人世界，也向今天的健康专业人员和父母展示了为什么美国年轻女性如此容易患厌食症，以及什么治疗方法被证明有效地对抗这种经常被误解的、通常是致命的疾病。
Anorexia nervosa may affect as many as five to ten percent of adolescent girls in the United States, and on some college campuses, the estimate is as high as twenty percent. Despite its recent "popularity", however, the disease remains puzzling in its causes and stubbornly resistant to a cure. For, as Fasting Girls demonstrates, anorexia nervosa existed long before our current preoccupation with lean bodies. This landmark, award-winning work offers a solution to the mystery of anorexia nervosa, exploring its historical roots from the fasting saints of the Middle Ages and the curious "fasting girls" of the Victorian era to the weight-obsessed celebrities of our own time. By linking broad cultural forces to individual biomedical and psychological factors, Fasting Girls shows how a society that believes a woman "can never be too rich or too thin" actually recruits certain adolescents to anorexia -- those who regard a thin body as a state of perfection. Combined with other social stresses, such an attitude puts an increasing number of contemporary young women at risk. Highly readable and authoritative, Fasting Girls takes the reader into the private world of sufferers in the past, and also shows today's health professionals and parents why America's young women are so vulnerable to anorexia, and what treatments have proven effective in combating this frequently misunderstood, often deadly, disorder.