Understanding eating disorders : conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Understanding eating disorders : conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa / Simona Giordano.

Simona Giordano presents the first full philosophical study of ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of these conditions and an exploration of their complex causes, she then proceeds to address legal and ethical dilemmas such as a pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giordano, Simona
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Issues in biomedical ethics.
Subjects:
Eating disorders.
Eating disorders > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eating disorders > Patients > Legal status, laws, etc.
Bulimia.
Anorexia nervosa.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Bulimia
Anorexia nervosa
Eating disorders
Eetstoornissen.
Behandeling.
Ethische aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Eating disorders: anorexia and bulimia nervosa
  • Paternalism vs respect for autonomy: the case of the eating disordered person
  • Is pathological behaviour caused by mental illness?
  • Scientific understanding of eating disorders
  • Lightness and eating disorders
  • The value of lightness
  • The role of expectations in the genesis of eating disorders
  • The society of the person with eating disorders
  • Victims or persecutors? The moral logic at the heart of eating disorders
  • Familial and social causes of eating disorders: a critique of the systemic and sociological approaches to eating disorders
  • Eating or treating? Legal and ethical issues surrounding eating disorders
  • Autonomy and control in eating disorders
  • Anorexia nervosa and refusal of life-saving interventions.

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