Book Review: The Geography Of Madness
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Culture into beliefs is fine. Culture into reality is a step I'm not willing to take. Ethan Waters discovers in his book Crazy Like Us that anorexia was mostly unknown in the West, until becoming trendy in quotes in the mid-1800s. In 1994, Hong Kong got its own Karen Carpenter, a young girl died of anorexia,. setting off a national panic and many public awareness campaigns. Near instantly, anorexia rates shot up to the same level as the West. The few cases they did see didn't resemble the typical Western version at all. For example, one Hong Kong psychiatrist was able to find a woman who refused to eat out of grief when a boyfriend
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