‘A most peculiar form of disease’: The creation of anorexia nervosa in late nineteenth-century Britain

<p>Anorexia nervosa appeared as a newly named disorder in the 1870s in Britain, leading historians and other scholars to pinpoint this as the origin point of a medicalised understanding of female food refusal. An abiding interest in locating the historical roots of this contemporary disorder h...

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1. Verfasser: Sookdeosingh, RV
Weitere Verfasser: Mahone, S
Format: Abschlussarbeit
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
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