Gender, eating disorders, and graphic medicine edited by Anu Peter, Sathyaraj Venkatesan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

<P>Introduction </P><P>Eating Disorders, Biocultures, and Graphic Medicine </P><P>Why Graphic Medicine? </P><P>Overview of the Book </P><B><P>1 A Prologue to Graphic Medicine</P></B><P>Medical Humanities: Towards the Humanization of Medical Science </P><P>Narrative Medicine: Understanding the Ordeals of Illness </P><P>Spectacles of Suffering: Representation of Illness across Media </P><P>Comics Medium and Healthcare </P><P>Comics, Women, and the Counterculture </P><P>Graphic Medicine: Definition and Scope </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P>2 Clinical Evolution of Eating Disorders and the Rise of the Biocultures </P></B><P>Chronicles of Starvation: A Cultural History of Eating Disorders </P><P>The Middle Ages: Fasting Saints and Miracle Maidens </P><P>From Miracle to Madness and Hysteria </P><P>Eating Disorders: A Medical Introduction </P><P>Anorexia Nervosa </P><P>Bulimia Nervosa </P><P>Binge Eating and EDNOS </P><P>Pitfalls in the Popular Explanatory Models of Eating Disorders </P><P>The Biocultural Model </P><P>Tracing the Footprints of Culture in Science </P><P>Graphic Medicine and the Biocultures </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P>3 Warped Femininities: Understanding the Corporeal Nexus of Anorexia and Culture</P></B><P>The Ideal Female Body as a Cultural Construct </P><P>Anorexia Nervosa: A Biocultural Approach </P><P>"At that time, nobody considered it": Anorexia and Familial Pressure </P><P>"Neil! You look like a man!": Body Shaming and Anorexia </P><P>"As long as I’m thin… I’ll be invincible:": Media and Thinspiration </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P>4 Subjective Incarnations of Anorexia: Creative Metaphors and Graphic Externalization </P></B><P>Comics, Metaphors, and Externalization </P><P>Graphic Medicine and the Iconography of Illness </P><P>"I’m Tyranny, your other self": The Metaphor of Self-Oppression </P><P>"my Ed—so Big and STRONG": Relationship Metaphors </P><P>Dark Clouds of Despair: The Metaphor of Pervasiveness </P><P>Epitomizing the Indefinable: The Power of Comics Medium </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P>5 From Abjection to Anorexia: Eating Disorders and the Horrors of the Female Body</P></B><P>Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders </P><P>Abjection: Origin, and Popular Definitions </P><P>Abjection and Anorexia: Theoretical Interventions of Megan Warin </P><P>"I feel disgusting": Menstruation, Abjection in <I>Lighter Than My Shadow</I> </P><P>"I hate this. I hate me": Menstruation and Abjection in <I>Tyranny</I> </P><P>"I’m disgusting": Self-Disgust and Sexual Abuse </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P>Conclusion: Towards an Alternative Understanding of Eating Disorders </P></B>