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Globalizing Pathologies: Mental HealthAssemblageand Spreading Diagnoses of Eating Disorders
2008
International Political Sociology
During the last two decades, psychiatric researchers have published evidence of eating disorders in regions around the world, despite previous conceptions of eating disorders as "culture-bound syndromes." This paper explores the pressures or processes encouraging this spread of diagnoses and their implications for our understanding of state mentalhealth policy making today. It argues that the increased willingness to diagnose eating disorders results from global-level instances of assemblage,
doi:10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00057.x
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