Objective: Involuntary treatment in the prevention of fatal anorexia nervosa (AN) is still
controversial. Method: Five fatal cases of AN were identified out of 1,160 patients who …

This article argues that civil mental health laws operate to constrict how people think,
understand, and speak about psychosocial disability, madness, and mental distress. It does …

This paper reports on an ethnographic study conducted in two eating disorders treatment
settings in New South Wales, Australia. The study set out to make a social work contribution …

Background Understanding the fine line between motivation and coercion in nursing
education may offer insight into satisfaction and autonomy in young nursing students …

This chapter explores the often vexed and complex dilemmas confronting the clinician when
having to decide upon the involuntary treatment of a patient with severe and enduring …

Sažetak U ovom radu istražili smo svijet društvenih značenja žena oboljelih od anoreksije i
bulimije koja se vezuju uz rodne uloge te uz tijelo i hranu. U teorijskom dijelu rada …

Anorexia nervosa poses particular challenges for medicine, for ethics and human rights, and
for the law. These challenges are emblematic of wider dilemmas across mental health and …

Medicine and ethics, rather than the law, are the dominant players in deciding if and when
coercion is appropriately deployed within clinical management of a condition. The same is …

The conceptualization of anorexia nervosa (AN) depends on the diagnostic criteria. Most
patients with teenage onset AN seem to remit within 3–10 years depending on the …

This chapter discusses chronicity as it pertains to anorexia nervosa (AN). It sets out
diagnostic criteria of severe and enduring anorexia and separates the syndrome from acute …