The Construction of Eating Disorders: Psychiatry, Politics and Cultural Representations of Disordered Eating

Fixsen, Alison

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-13
  • 售價: $6,640
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 362
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031703170
  • ISBN-13: 9783031703171
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商品描述

This book draws on original research to critically examine the social and industrial construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an analysis that encompasses psychiatry and health, cultural representations, and the politics of eating disorders. Centrally, it examines the extent to which eating disorders are not 'made' by individuals, but rather constructed by groups who claim investment, experience, and expertise in the diagnosis, labeling, treatment, and management of disordered eating. It demonstrates the impacts of biomedical, psychiatric, legal, pharmaceutical, technical and consumer groups, as well as that of the fast-food, fashion, media and social media industries. In doing so, it reveals how they shape the ways that eating disorders are perceived, spoken of, written about, and managed within institutions and wider society. It will appeal to students and scholars of mental health, critical psychology, medical sociology and anthropology and gender studies, and others interested in our future health.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書基於原創研究,批判性地檢視飲食失調和不當飲食的社會與產業建構,分析涵蓋精神醫學與健康、文化表徵以及飲食失調的政治。書中核心探討飲食失調並非由個人「製造」,而是由聲稱在診斷、標籤、治療和管理不當飲食方面具有投資、經驗和專業知識的群體所建構。它展示了生物醫學、精神醫學、法律、藥品、技術和消費者團體的影響,以及快餐、時尚、媒體和社交媒體產業的影響。藉此,本書揭示了這些因素如何塑造飲食失調在機構和更廣泛社會中的認知、表達、書寫和管理方式。本書將吸引心理健康、批判心理學、醫療社會學、人類學、性別研究等領域的學生和學者,以及對我們未來健康感興趣的其他讀者。

作者簡介

​Alison Fixsen is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, UK. Alison has had decades of experience in the food, health, and higher education sector, including previous work managing a vegetarian wholefood business and as a complementary therapist before completing her Professional Doctorate in Higher Education Practice. Since 2012, Dr Fixsen has authored over 34 journal papers and book chapters on a wide range of issues relating to the critical mental health and gender studies, neoliberalism and self-care, eating disorders, prescription drug use and critical approaches to social prescribing.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Alison Fixsen 是英國威斯敏斯特大學社會科學學院的心理學高級講師。Alison 在食品、健康和高等教育領域擁有數十年的經驗,包括之前管理一家素食全食商業和擔任輔助治療師,之後完成了高等教育實踐的專業博士學位。自2012年以來,Fixsen 博士已發表超過34篇期刊論文和書籍章節,涵蓋與心理健康和性別研究、新自由主義與自我照顧、飲食失調、處方藥使用以及對社會處方的批判性方法等相關的廣泛議題。