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Torture and the teaching of medical ethics
Author(s) -
Allbrook David B.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1983.tb122412.x
Subject(s) - torture , citation , medical ethics , library science , psychology , computer science , human rights , law , political science
the underlying causes of the disordered eating phase, may also be indicated. Abraham et al. report that many of their normal subjects have had considerable success at various times in losing weight. Our own experience concurs with this; however, we have noted that many of these apparently successful attemptsto lose weight are followed byepisodes of weight gain. Perhaps the social climate which demands "abnormal" thinness is simultaneously ensuring that young women have an important experience of failure as part of their adolescent development. The efforts of the medical profession to promote the notion that obesity and ill-health are related havesometimes been interpreted too simplistically. In the case of patients who are morbidly preoccupied with their weight, this viewpoint has become the rationalization for a complex and very unhealthy behaviour pattern. The medical profession hascontributed significantly to the September 3, 1983 THE MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA