"Now look, the picture shows" : the visualization of disordered eating in Victorian children’s literature
This thesis explores the myriad ways in which the apparently unrelated discourses of medicine, fiction and photography intertwine in the depiction of disordered eating. It examines the medical literature of the physician William Withey Gull, who first diagnosed anorexia nervosa as a discrete dise...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12729 |