'Hungry for Words: A cross-disciplinary approach to articulating, communicating and understanding male anorexia'

该研究网络将研究男性饮食失调（ED）神经性厌食症（AN）的各个方面，为医学和健康科学带来独特的艺术和人文视角，从而绘制跨学科研究领域。该合作是由AHRC的重点通知“跨学科研究网络探索跨理事会调查的新兴领域”通知的，重点是AHRC强调的福祉和心理健康领域。虽然在医学和文化方面对女性ed（如厌食症、暴食症）进行了相当广泛的探索，但对男性ed（尤其是男性AN）的研究却明显较少。尽管被认为是“女性独有的问题”，ed慈善机构表示，男性AN在西方国家是一个日益严重的问题，并强调需要更多的认识和更多的研究。人与食物之间的关系非常复杂，影响着生活的许多方面，涉及生物、心理、经济、社会和文化因素。这强调需要更广泛和跨学科的参与，并考虑到性别问题。所有这些都使我们的建议具有时效性和高度相关性，并强调其激发创新研究的潜力。我们在英国和美国的国际研究人员网络促进了医学、精神病学、心理健康科学、教育、英语、现代外语、语言学和数学之间的重大跨界交流，以制定联合研究议程。我们还与4个教育慈善机构的指定合作伙伴密切合作，开展研究和影响活动（与学校和大学生的教育活动，与教师的研讨会，学生培训活动）。我们的项目对个人、卫生和教育专业人员、更广泛的公众和决策以及未来跨学科的协作工作具有重大的影响潜力。它位于新兴的卫生人文学科，为将卫生学科与艺术和人文学科联系起来提供了一个平台，鼓励后者的创新应用，以改善个人和社会的福祉。诺丁汉心理健康研究所的跨学科工作也为其提供了信息。我们网络的核心是希望进一步研究男性AN，并提高人们对男性AN的认识。它探讨了英国男性AN的各个方面，并在个人叙事的三个领域与北美、德国、法国和意大利进行了比较：文学（小说和自传写作）、在线自我文档（在博客和论坛上的个人账户）和口头账户（在更广泛的治疗背景下以客户为主导的口头交流）。虽然来自学术机构的参与研究人员为这三个领域带来了独特的艺术和人文视角，但拟议的关键活动主要不是为了推进个别学科，而是为了激发来自医学和卫生保健科学的参与学者之间的新对话。该项目促进了不同领域的比较，并探讨了个人叙述如何在医疗和保健背景下增加对男性AN的理解。制定一个联合研究议程有可能为男性AN的治疗和管理提供信息和改变，这些研究问题由跨学科的研究问题构成：男性ed的个人叙述如何以文学、在线自我文档和客户主导的口头叙述的方式以创新的方式帮助患有AN的男性？-在既定的医学定义和社会文化建构的障碍和性别行为概念范例之外，援助和告知她们的治疗？-用于教育和培训卫生保健专业人员？-有助于提高公众的知识、意识和理解？反过来，医疗保健专业人员的见解如何有助于理解这三种类型的个人叙述？

The research network will investigate aspects of the eating disorder (ED) anorexia nervosa (AN) in males by bringing distinct arts & humanities perspectives to medical and health sciences thus mapping a field of cross-disciplinary enquiry. The collaboration is informed by the AHRC's highlight notice 'Cross-Disciplinary Research Networks Exploring Emerging Areas of Cross-Council Enquiry' and focuses on the AHRC highlighted areas of well-being and mental health. Whilst EDs in females (e.g. anorexia, bulimia) are being explored fairly extensively in medical and cultural approaches, there is significantly less engagement with male EDs in general and male AN in particular. Despite being perceived as a 'female-only-problem', ED-charities suggest that male AN is an increasing problem in Western countries and highlight the need for greater awareness and more research. The relationship between human beings and food is highly complex and affects many aspects of life, involving biological, psychological, economic, social and cultural factors. This stresses the need for a wider and cross-disciplinary engagement that also takes questions of gender into account. All this makes our proposal timely and highly relevant and emphasizes its potential to stimulate innovative research. Our network of international UK- and US-based investigators facilitates significant boundary-crossing exchange between medicine, psychiatry, mental health science, education, english, modern foreign languages, linguistics and mathematics to develop a joint research agenda. We also collaborate closely with named partners from 4 ED-charities in our research and impact activities (educational events with schools and UG students, a workshop with teachers, student training events). Our project has significant potential to impact on individuals, health and educational professionals, the wider public and policy-making and for future collaborative work across the disciplines. It is situated in the emerging discipline of health humanities that provides a platform for linking health disciplines with the arts & humanities encouraging innovative applications of the latter to improve the well-being of individuals and societies. It is also informed by the interdisciplinary work of Nottingham's Institute of Mental Health. At the heart of our network is the desire for further research on, and to raise awareness of, male AN. It explores aspects of male AN in the UK and draws comparisons with North America, Germany, France and Italy in 3 areas of personal narrative: literature (fiction and autobiographical writings), online egodocuments (personal accounts in weblogs and forums), and oral accounts (client-led oral communication in a wider therapy context). Whilst participating researchers from academic institutions bring a distinct arts & humanities perspective to these 3 areas, the proposed key activities are not primarily designed to advance individual disciplines but to spark new conversations with participating scholars from medical and health care sciences. The project facilitates comparisons across different areas and explores how personal narratives can add to the understanding of male AN in a medical and healthcare context. Developing a joint research agenda has the potential to inform and transform the treatment and management of male AN framed by cross-disciplinary research questions:How can personal narratives of male EDs delivered in literature, online egodocuments and client-led oral accounts- help males with AN in an innovative manner?- aid and inform their treatment beyond established medical definitions and paradigms of socio-culturally constructed concepts of disorder and gendered behaviour? - be used in educating and training health care professionals?- contribute to greater public knowledge, awareness and understanding? How, in turn, can insights from healthcare professionals aid to the understanding of these 3 types of personal narratives?