La anorexia nerviosa en las ciencias sociales: estado de la cuestión

Abstract

The so-called «anorexia nervosa disorder» has been the object of a great interest from an important part of the scientific community: many and diverse have been the approaches offering explanations about the recent increment of such disorder in our societies. This interest appears related in great measure to the study of those factors that the aetio-pathogenic clinical models have described as socio-cultural. Thus, to a great extent, social sciences seem to have found a legitimate field of study within the excluding scope of the fields of clinic medicine and women’s health. The article will approach and analyze in depth some
of the most relevant proposals in the exploration of these questions.