Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics
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- Hardcover
284 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2026
Summary
The complexities of the relationship between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy. By examining the practices and ethics of care that attempt to reconcile the patients’, family carers’, and the professionals’ conflicting notions about eating disorders, this book explores how bodies are both material in their sociality and social in their materiality. Food and family emerge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836955245 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836955243 |
| Author: | Giulia Sciolli |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 284 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Wyse Social Anthropology |
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About The Author
Giulia Sciolli
Giulia Sciolli is Researcher at the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the Italian National Research Council. She has edited an interdisciplinary volume on the relationship between care and coercion titled Cure che costringono, costrizioni che curano (2024, CNR Edizioni).
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