B_ ecause limited clinical in-formation was provided about the 22-year-old woman with
anorexia nervosa who died after treatment was withdrawn, as described by Drs. Philip C …

He &bert and Weingarten'are to be congratulated on having tried to come to grips with an
extremely difficult issue. The anorexic pa-tient must surely be a paradigm of overall …

G uidelines for withholding forced nutrition and hydration have applied largely to pa-tients
who are terminally ill'-who, in Ramsey's words, 2 are already" in the article of death"-and …

Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. Predictors of
mortality include chronicity of the illness, critically low body weight, and binging and purging …

Anorexia nervosa is classified as a mental disorder in the International Classification of
Diseases (ICD-10), and between 20-30 anorexics die each year in the UK.'There is no …

Eating disorders comprise a diverse group, which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia
nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other non specific eating disorders. Recently the rising …

Birmingham B18 5SD declarations. The first concerned the giving of treat ment by way of
artificial feeding as being lawful treatment. The second, that it was lawful treatment within …

As recently as 1989, no one had yet investigated the outcome of involuntary treatment in
anorexia nervosa (AN), 10 but there now exists a slender literature on the practical, clinical …

People who suffer from eating disorders often have to be treated against their will, perhaps
by being detained, perhaps by being forced to eat. In this paper it is argued that whilst …

Clinicians may experience ethical and legal dilemmas in the management of patients with
severe anorexia nervosa. It has been suggested that weight gain through compulsory …