Being anorexic: Hunger, subjectivity, and embodied morality

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 274-296

  Gooldin, Sigal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Feminist critique; Hunger; Lived body; Moral subjectivity

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUNGER; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANOREXIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGER; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MORALS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 54049132978     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2008.00026.x     Document Type: Article

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