Objective Compulsory in‐patient refeeding of patients with severe anorexia nervosa (AN)
has caused considerable controversy. The effects of such treatment on longer‐term outcome …

Ethical dilemmas frequently arise in the treatment of clients with eating disorders, and
clinicians regularly encounter an array of ethical challenges related to whether or not overt …

Involuntary commitment appears to be an infrequently used intervention with anorexic
patients, in part because of clinicians' uncertainty about its applicability to this population. In …

This paper argues that there is a relationship between understandings of anorexia nervosa
(AN) and how the ethical issues associated with involuntary treatment for AN are identified …

" A young woman thus afflicted, her clothes scarcely hanging together on her anatomy, her
pulse slow and slack, her temperature two degrees below the normal mean, her bowels …

Clinical efforts to treat anorexia nervosa (AN) are constantly resisted by patients. Although
the primacy of patient autonomy is a cornerstone of modern medical ethics, clinicians will …

Background: End-of-life (EOL) care is the part of palliative care intended for persons nearing
death. In anorexia nervosa (AN), providing EOL care instead of coercing life-sustaining …

Objective Refeeding patients with anorexia nervosa can be one of the more challenging
aspects of their treatment, and particularly if all food and fluids are adamantly and …

While mental health professionals describe anorexia as a mental disorder, individuals with
anorexia often describe it as an identity. By centering the lived experiences of individuals …

Individuals with eating disorders, especially those with anorexia nervosa, have the potential
to experience significant harm and even death as a result of behaviors related to their …