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Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic: Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics

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Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic

Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics

Giulia Sciolli

284 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-524-5 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-525-2 eBook Not Yet Published


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The complexities of the relationship between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy. By examining the practices and ethics of care that attempt to reconcile the patients’, family carers’, and the professionals’ conflicting notions about eating disorders, this book explores how bodies are both material in their sociality and social in their materiality. Food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions, as healthcare professionals tackle the patient’s kinship relationships for intervention. Ultimately, kinship makes and unmakes people through food.

Giulia Sciolli is Researcher at the Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of the Italian National Research Council. She has edited an interdisciplinary volume on the relationship between care and coercion titled Cure che costringono, costrizioni che curano (2024, CNR Edizioni).

Subject: Medical AnthropologyFood & NutritionSociology
Area: Southern Europe


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