Liles E G, Woods S C
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio.
Hist Psychiatry. 1999 Jun;10(39 Pt 2):205-25. doi: 10.1177/0957154X9901003803.
When anorexia nervosa is considered from a critical historical perspective, several key features emerge. For one, striking similarities can be found between the sociocultural milieux of medieval fasting women and modern anorexics. Although the presentation of self-starvation has changed over the centuries, the syndrome can still be identified and shown to flourish during eras and in societies in which individuals (mainly women) lacked adequate attention, control, respect and/or economic power, and when a socially acceptable avenue for expression existed. In this context, the steady increase in the incidence of anorexia nervosa over the last fifty years is seen to parallel specific cultural and economic events that favoured thiness.
从批判性的历史视角审视神经性厌食症时，会浮现出几个关键特征。其一，中世纪禁食女性与现代厌食症患者的社会文化环境存在显著相似之处。尽管几个世纪以来自我饥饿的表现形式有所变化，但在个体（主要是女性）缺乏足够关注、控制权、尊重和/或经济权力，且存在社会可接受的表达途径的时代和社会中，仍能识别出该综合征并发现其盛行。在此背景下，过去五十年来神经性厌食症发病率的稳步上升被视为与有利于瘦身的特定文化和经济事件并行。
