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rgument that these pressures are related to eating disorders in any way. Her work with victims of eating disorders has shown her that patients do not see severe food deprivation as a means to achieving a physical ideal. On the contrary, patients are aware that their disorder actually makes them unattractive, but their purpose in starving themselves is not to become thinner but to die: "They vie to be the best at dying" (69).

Claude-Pierre argues for a new terminology to describe both out-of-control self-starv

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