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Famished Esthetic Dentistry The high standards set forWhen Rebecca Lester was eleven years oldand again when she was eighteenshe almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorderstheir history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well