National Library of Medicine | Anorexia in the Archives: Documenting the Late Twentieth Century Rise in Eating Disorders @NLMNIH | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Alice Weinreb, PhD — Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/index.html
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET — This talk will be live-streamed globally, and archived on NLM's YouTube Channel and NIH VideoCasting.
During the 1970s and 1980s, anorexia nervosa moved from being an obscure affliction to having epidemic status. The explosion in eating disorders during these years required the creation of new hospital wings and specialized clinics around the world; it also inspired hundreds of successful movies and young-adult novels, shaped popular conceptualization of adolescence, led to new thinking about body dysmorphia and trauma, and had a major impact on theorists of both capitalism and feminism. Eating disorders were so pressing both because they were so devastating but also because they were spreading so rapidly and inexplicably. This talk will analyze a variety of voices that grapple with the cause and meaning of this new category of mental illness. These sources include materials on medical education from the NLM collections; clinical and hospital records; self-help support group documentation; patient diaries; TV and film; and feminist writings from Germany, Italy, the US, and Great Britain. Taken together, they document the multiple meanings of anorexia and bulimia in the modern world.
#humanhealth #historyofmedicine #anorexianervosarecovery
Alice Weinreb, PhD — Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/index.html
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET — This talk will be live-streamed globally, and archived on NLM's YouTube Channel and NIH VideoCasting.
During the 1970s and 1980s, anorexia nervosa moved from being an obscure affliction to having epidemic status. The explosion in eating disorders during these years required the creation of new hospital wings and specialized clinics around the world; it also inspired hundreds of successful movies and young-adult novels, shaped popular conceptualization of adolescence, led to new thinking about body dysmorphia and trauma, and had a major impact on theorists of both capitalism and feminism. Eating disorders were so pressing both because they were so devastating but also because they were spreading so rapidly and inexplicably. This talk will analyze a variety of voices that grapple with the cause and meaning of this new category of mental illness. These sources include materials on medical education from the NLM collections; clinical and hospital records; self-help support group documentation; patient diaries; TV and film; and feminist writings from Germany, Italy, the US, and Great Britain. Taken together, they document the multiple meanings of anorexia and bulimia in the modern world.
#humanhealth #historyofmedicine #anorexianervosarecovery
![Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZtOd39AWmVU/hqdefault.jpg "Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)
Title translates in English as altitude sickness. A man wearing a hat folded from newspaper is writing on a piece of paper. A hand reaches in and places a breathing apparatus in the mans mouth. Other men are shown wearing aviator goggles, writing on paper, and using the breathing apparatus. One man repeatedly holds his hands out from his body, examining their movement. Some of the people in the film wear white coats, suggesting they are scientists or doctors. In the final frames, three men and a woman, all in white coats, are outside, smiling and handling a camera and what appears to be a length of string. This film was made approximately one year after the Deutsche Forschungsrat für Luftfahrt (German Aeronautics Research Council) was founded.
Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773260
Learn more about the National Library of Medicines historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films
#medicalhistory #aviation #silentfilm")
