When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old-and again when she was
eighteen-she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured
professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns
her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating
disorders-their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and
place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the
culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical
work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a
profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them.
Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic
accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make
sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of
recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It's also an
unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in
American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a
disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable,
critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you
understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
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