The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher
Publication year: 2002
ISBN: 1585421359
Description:
A modern investigation into the Victorian-era case of a young woman who claimed to have survived for twelve years without food discusses the journalism practices of the time, the complexities of eating disorders, the theories of Darwin, and the scientific process of fasting. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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