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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is indebted to the participants who so generously shared their time and experiences with me. It is their incredible generosity that created and sustained this project and I sincerely thank them for allowing me to share a part of their worlds. As with any research, the ideas presented here have developed in my engagement with a wide range of other people. Unfortunately I cannot mention them all, but it is with deep gratitude that I thank those who have trained and mentored me as a social anthropologist. Deane Fergie inspired me as an undergraduate and has continued to inspire me with her intellectual wit and fortitude. Rod Lucas and Rob Barrett provided me with an apprenticeship in cultural psychiatry and introduced me to the values of ethnography and to the historical links between psychiatry, phenomenology, and anthropology. Margie Ripper honed my attention to gender relations and provided an intellectual environment where my ideas were challenged and extended. It is the superb tutelage of all these scholars that prepared me for the research on which this book is based and nurtured the process as it developed. Although these four would deny working any magic, it is their outstanding intellect and inspiration that I pay tribute to. I am honored to have worked with such eminent academics and generous people. A great number of people assisted in making this research possible. Many health professionals welcomed me into their workplaces and gave me encouragement of all kinds. I am especially grateful to Elliot Goldner, Margaret Norman, Rolf Breyer, May McNicol, Peter Gilchrist, Charlotte Procter, Chris Freeman, Maggie Gray, Vonnie Coopman, and Cina Mastrantone. Jon Telfer and Karen Turner read drafts of this book, and I have benefited enormously from their meticulous attention to detail, insightful comments, and encouragement at crucial moments. I also wish to thank Elspeth Probyn, Martha Macintyre, and Carole Browner for their careful reviews of drafts of this book, and their generous enthusiasm and exacting criticisms. Adi Hovav, from Rutgers University Press, has enabled this book to come to fruition, and I thank her and her colleagues for their professionalism xi and commitment. Bobbe Needham provided meticulous editing skills, and I am extremely grateful for this exactitude. Others who encouraged me at crucial points along the way include John Coveney, Mandy Thomas, Fran Baum, Chilla Bulbeck, Marg Allen, Vivienne Moore, John Gray, Kay Schaffer, Catherine Panter Brick, Tessa Pollard, and Michael Carrithers. I am grateful to all the postgraduate students and staff in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Inquiry at the University of Adelaide and University of Durham who have engaged with this work and offered intellectual stimulus in seminars, postgraduate meetings, and informal conversations (most notably the weekly morning tea in Social Inquiry). In particular, I would like to thank Nicole Moulding, Catherine Palmer, Simone Dennis, Debbi Long, Arthur Saniotis, Erez Cohen, Melissa Iocco, Lara Palombo, Pam Papadelos, Ingrid Hofmann, Emily Potter, Damon Parker, Ali Ben Kahn, Susan Oakley, Kathy Muir, Thalia Palmer, Sharon Lewis, and Colleen Solly—all of whom have skills and knowledge that have in a myriad of ways informed this work. I also wish to acknowledge the intellectual stimulation I gained from the “Eat Me! An Anthropological Examination of Food” session at the  Australian Anthropological Society’s annual conference at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Many thanks to the wonderful Kalissa Alexeyeff and Roberta James, and all the other panel contributors and audience members who offered critiques and suggestions. Financial support for this project was provided by the Catherine Helen Spence Travelling Scholarship, the Karen Halley Trust, and an Australian Postgraduate Award. I thank the organizations and their administrators responsible for such vital support. A special thanks to Peter and Karin Wood, local knowledge brokers of Catherine Helen Spence’s early years, in Melrose, Scotland. And finally, I wish to thank my family. I am indebted to Joan’s and Jack’s belief in the value of education and fostering a love of learning. To my partner , Cameron, I am indebted for unstinting encouragement and confidence in me to achieve on so many levels. And to Freya and Evie, thank you for allowing me to take the time to write. I am grateful to the publishers of the following articles, who granted permission to reproduce parts of them for this book: Warin, M. . “Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia.” Anthropology and Medicine (): –. Warin, M. . “Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality: Bedrooms in Public Institutions.” Body and Society (): –. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [3.133...

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