Hungerkünstler, Fastenwunder, Magersucht
Fasting
Anorexia nervosa
Medicine, history
Eating disorders
Women, psychology
Psychiatry
Psychology
History
With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on social pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be…
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