SOWK 2025 Lecture 9: CH9 book powerpoint notes
Document Summary
By focusing on warning people about the harmful effects of dieting and the complications of eating disorders, it has met with little success. United kingdom and many western european countries beginning in the mid-to late. 1960s and then in accelerating fashion into the 1970s and through the late 1980s to the present: the situation was even more startling for bulimia nervosa, which had been virtually unknown prior to the 1970s. In fact, it could be argued that the contradictions and transitions in female identity represent the most profound basis of eating disorders throughout history and across cultures. This appears to have been the case since 1990: outside europe and the united states, there is only in japan have eating disorders been well known in the second half of the 20th century. In a symposium on eating disorders held in the 1960s, ishikawa (1965) suggested that the incidence of anorexia in japan had been increasing since the second world war.
