Beyond Anorexia or Essentials of Health and Wellness

Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

Author: Catherine Garrett

Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Glossary
Pt. I	Personal sociology
1	Descent and return	3
2	Researching recovery	17
3	Autobiography, narrative and healing	31
Pt. II	Anorexia and recovery
4	Reinterpreting 'anorexia'	47
5	Reinterpreting 'recovery'	63
6	Recovery stories	80
Pt. III	Spirituality
7	Society and spirit	95
8	Rituals of self-transformation	110
9	Spiritual stories	132
Pt. IV	The body
10	Recreating the body	147
11	The sexual body	162
12	The knowing body	173
	Epilogue	184
App. A	Participants' profiles	194
App. B	Questions to participants	198
App. C	Codes used for analysis	200
	Notes	201
	References	218
	Index	234

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Essentials of Health and Wellness

Author: James Robinson

Each of the 13 million high school students in public high schools are required to take one semester of health education. For health instruction to be successful, the instructional program should be grounded in good science, include a behavioral component, and be packaged in a way that can be easily implemented. Essentials of Health and Wellness provides the teacher with everything needed to engage the learner and to create a successful health course. It is designed to be student friendly and is centered on the important, but often overlooked, notion of building personal wellness. All health concepts are brought back to the student, who is encouraged to develop positive wellness behaviors through the creation of a personal wellness plan. Based on the framework of the National Standards for School Health Education, this product is the total package for high school health education. With a small but rich ancillary offering, including a separate Sexuality Supplement (ISBN 1-4018-1525-1)that goes into greater detail about sensitive issues that may not be desirable to all school districts and a free Online Companion with additional lesson plans, teaching activities, and student worksheets, this text provides teachers with a well-rounded, effective system for health education instruction.