famished

Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

by Rebecca J. Lester

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In Famished, Rebecca J. Lester, who twice nearly died from anorexia, blends personal memoir with clinical observation to explore eating disorders’ lived reality and the U.S. healthcare system’s failures. Through ethnographic detail, therapeutic narratives, and cultural analysis, Lester shows how treatments often miss the mark and how profit motives can undermine care, reshaping our understanding of why people suffer and struggle to recover.

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