Understanding Eating Disorders

Medical Law

Understanding Eating Disorders

By Simona Giordano
Oxford University Press October 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199232956
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
October 2007
Format
Paperback , 320 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • The first book on the ethics of eating disorders now in paperback
  • An invaluable resource for medical practitioners, lawyers, and ethicists
  • Giordano has unrivalled expertise in this area
  • Issues are of broad relevance throughout biomedical ethics
  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2006

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.

Readership: Medical practitioners, lawyers, ethicists; anyone working on eating disorders and their treatment

Table of Contents

Part I: Clinical Understanding of Eating Disorders and of the Ethical Issues Involved
1: Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
2: Paternalism vs Respect for Autonomy: the Case of the Eating Disordered Person
3: Is Pathological Behaviour Caused by Mental Illness?
4: Scientific Understanding of Eating Disorders
Part II: Eating Disorders and the Value of Lightness
5: Lightness and Eating Disorders
6: The Value of Lightness
Part III: The Family and Society of the Person with Eating Disorders
7: The Role of Expectations in the Genesis of Eating Disorders
8: The Society of the Person with Eating Disorders
9: Victims or Persecutors? The Moral Logic at the Heart of Eating Disorders
10: Familial and Social Causes of Eating Disorders: A Critique of the Systemic and Sociological Approaches to Eating Disorders
Part IV: Legal Issues, Autonomy, and End of Life Decisions
11: Eating or Treating? Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Eating Disorders
12: Autonomy and Control in Eating Disorders
13: Anorexia Nervosa and Refusal of Life-Saving Interventions
Conclusion: The Need for Change

About the Author

Simona Giordano, University of Manchester

Reviews

Review(s) from previous edition

"shows why received analyses of eating disorders are incomplete or inadequate - Lisa Heldke, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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