Del 19 - Wyse Social Anthropology

Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic

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Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvGiulia Sciolli

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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 aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions, as healthcare professionals tackle the patient’s kinship relationships for intervention. Ultimately, kinship makes and unmakes people through food.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 19 i Wyse Social Anthropology
Antal sidor284
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836955245

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Into the FieldChapter 2. If Food Is the Symptom, What Is the Problem?Chapter 3. From Coercion to Responsibility: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Minds, Transforming SelvesChapter 4. ‘We are a relational laboratory’: Kinship as a Therapeutic ToolChapter 5. Treating Patients ‘who don’t speak’: The Challenge of Treating ChildrenChapter 6. When ‘things don’t work’: Chronicity, Comorbidity and the Limits of CareConclusion: The Social that HurtsReferencesIndex