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Material environments and the shaping of anorexic embodiment : towards a materialist account of eating disorders
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Eli, Karin and Lavis, Anna (2022) Material environments and the shaping of anorexic embodiment : towards a materialist account of eating disorders. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 46 . pp. 344-363. doi:10.1007/s11013-021-09715-8
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-021-09715-8
Abstract
Anorexia nervosa is a paradoxical disorder, regarded across disciplines as a body project and yet also an illness of disembodied subjectivity. This overlooks the role that material environments-including objects and spaces-play in producing embodied experiences of anorexia both within and outside treatment. To address this gap, this paper draws together two ethnographic studies of anorexia to explore the shared themes unearthed by research participants' engagements with objects that move across boundaries between treatment spaces and everyday lives. Demonstrating how the anorexic body is at once both phenomenologically lived and socio-medically constituted, we argue that an attention to materiality is crucial to understanding lived experiences. A materialist account of anorexia extends the literature on treatment resistance in eating disorders and offers a reconceptualisation of 'the body in treatment', showing how objects and spaces shape, maintain, and even 'trigger' anorexia. Therefore, against the background of the high rates of relapse in eating disorders, this analysis calls for consideration of how interventions can better take account of eating disordered embodiment as shaped by material environments.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Anorexia nervosa , Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Mental health, Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects, Eating disorders—Diagnosis, Eating disorders -- Etiology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1573-076X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 46 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 344-363 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11013-021-09715-8 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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