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Running Head: EATING DISORDERS 2

EATING DISORDERS 2

Eating Disorders

Karin Eli Megan Warin. (2018, August 1). Anthropological perspectives on eating disorders: Deciphering cultural logics. ResearchGate.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326691500_Anthropological_Perspectives_on_Eating_Disorders_Deciphering_Cultural_Logics

The authors of this article are Karin Eli and Megan Warin; Karin is a medical anthropologist where his research concentrates on eating disorders, the body, and obesity alongside food activism, social mobility, and social class. With Megan, he is a professor in the School of Social Sciences and has held academic positions. This article reviews the anthropological work on eating disorders. The paper will critique the article, assessing the accuracy, currency, relevance.

Summary

In the article, the authors intended to inspect how the approaches of anthropological to eating disorders have grown in decades following the exceptional problem of Medicine, Culture, and Psychiatry on eating disorders in the context of the world. They argue that it is broadly conceded that eating disorders have an extensive socio-cultural factor. They state that the theories of anthropology have been used in the past three decades to describe eating disorders as a cultural phenomenon (Megan Warin, 2018). They also explain that the ethnographic survey provided critical readings of the anorexia gendered distribution, which challenged the idea that young women are infectious by images of culture of the thin optimal. They summarized some anthological work and what was argued. For instance, in Gremillion (2002), the argument was that anorexia shows a socio-politically constructed contradiction of the feminine body and limited and able in the self-actualization drive via fitness.
The authors argue that eating disorders are challenging to treat, and the rate of recovery is low, and primarily those who suffer deny that they have an issue. Such as any complicated health issue, no one discipline can offer all the solutions to the issue. They state that anthropology provides vital understanding into what account for the culture in eating disorders both in treatment regimes and patient’s experiences, without losing sight of these disorders’ biological realities. The authors conclude that anthropology can thus elucidate how mostly the aspects of culture are overlooked. They also state that testifying how normatively and deeply culture logics run, the analyses of anthropological have as well surveyed how treatment programs for eating disorders use the very reasons and drive these disorders.

Article Critique

In this article, the authors are all part of this field, and this makes the article to be reliable, as it can be seen to be accurate as it is written by professionals. This makes the arguments that the authors have provided to be trustworthy and reliable. The author’s selected anthological works for analyses, this method of collecting data is thorough, which also makes it viable. This is because their collection of data was comprehensive, where they gathered information from different works. The authors also provide their work with an abstract that is clear, and this is said to be a critical introduction to the study. This gives evidence of the validity of the study as the reader is able to identify and knows if the article relates to what they are interested in. The abstract summarizes the article effectively. However, the abstract did not include the article’s conclusion, which could be better if they included the conclusion so that the reader could have a clue of the issue. Also, the research title is brief, and it explains the focus of the article and indicates the purpose of the article (Hughes, W, 2001).
Also, the article provides writings from different people, and the work is not current, which shows that the authors did thorough research on the topic. Even though the works provided are not current, the study itself is current since it was first published in July 2018, and this makes the article more effective (Milind S. Tullu, 2019). In general, the article is a good, well-written piece with an essential message of an eating disorder. When the article is taken as a whole, it is relevant and very convincing in theory. However, it starts slow and never lays out a concrete way of approaching this complicated issue. The study was thorough and well organized, and the reader could clearly understand the article since it had subtopics.
The conclusion was formulated with the knowledge that subjects this study. The authors concluded that the eating disorder is not easy to treat and that the rate of recovery from this disorder is low and those who suffer from this issue fail to accept that they have an issue. They also, in their conclusion, say that there is no one discipline that can provide all the answers to this issue. The author’s conclusion was well written, and it is easy for one to understand what the authors wanted to communicate. In the discussion the article did get a little complex since the discussion was huge and the reader could get lost while reading. This study is very important and relevant in the psychology field. It has provided a better insight on the eating disorder and the perspectives of anthropological, and it has provided the arguments that anthropology provides, and this helps one to gain much more insight on the topic.
The article does precisely indicate the approach they used in gathering data, which shows the accuracy of the article. This was a very in-depth article; it was organized well and it was written very well for the most part. I can highly recommend this study to individuals who want to understand more about the anthological perspectives on eating disorders. The authors indicate in the study that anthropologists have surveyed how individuals reform the relations of kinship via eating disorders and how they construct their own identities via encourging a relationship with their disorders. This shows that the researchers had done good research from the anthropologists, and this makes it an in-depth article.
In conclusion, in general, the article was well written, and the readers could clearly understand what was discussed. People gain insights on the anthropology perspective of eating disorders, and this can be an effective work for people who want to gain more insights on the topic. Karin Eli and Megan Warin and other writers who they took their work from gave some well-thought-out and interesting insights on the subject of eating disorder which is a significant concern in health. The authors did not fail to show evidence supporting their argument when they explained the eating disorder, they gave evidence on how anthropologists argued about the same issue, and by this, they gave facts to prove their claims. In summary, I think that what the authors have written is a good article, and I can recommend the article to anyone who wants to gain insights on the subject.

References

Megan Warin. (2018, July 30). Anthropological perspectives on eating disorders: Deciphering cultural logics – Karin Eli, Megan Warin, 2018. SAGE Journals.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363461518784385

Hughes, W. (2001). Welcome to CentAUR – CentAUR. https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4306/1/ARCOM_Newsletter_-_What_makes_a_good_research_paper.pdf

Milind S. Tullu. (2019, April 13). Writing the title and abstract for a research paper: Being concise, precise, and meticulous is the key. PubMed Central (PMC). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398294/