Understanding eating disorders : conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa / Simona Giordano.
Giordano, Simona (Lecturer in bioethics)
2007
RC552.E18 G56 2007 (Mapit)
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Understanding eating disorders : conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa / Simona Giordano.
Author
Giordano, Simona (Lecturer in bioethics)
ISBN
9780199232956 (pbk.)
0199232954 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 297 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
RC552.E18 G56 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
174.2968526
Summary
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 patient's refusal of life-saving treatment. Illustrated with many case-studies, Understanding Eating Disorders is an essential tool for anyone working with sufferers of these much misunderstood conditions, and for all those ethicists, lawyers, and medical practitioners engaged with the widely relevant issues they raise.
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Originally published: 2005.
Series
Issues in biomedical ethics
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Pt. 1. Scientific understanding of eating disorders. Eating disorders: anorexia and bulimia nervosa
Paternalism v. respect for autonomy
Is pathological behaviour caused by mental illness?
Scientific understanding of eating disorders
Pt. 2. The value of lightness. Lightness and eating disorders
The value of lightness
Pt. 3. Families, society, and eating disorders. 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
A critique of the systemic and sociological approaches to eating disorders
Pt. 4. Law, ethics, and ending lives. Eating or treating? Legal and ethical issues surrounding eating disorders
Autonomy and control in eating disorders
Anorexia nervosa and refusal of life-saving interventions
Conclusions: the need for change.

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