Ghosts and Living: Eating Disorders as a Cultural Illness not Individual Sickness with Writer, Emmeline Clein

I read Emmeline Clein's book ' Dead Weight ' last fall in a flurry of non-fiction, memoir and journalism I was reading around eating disorder and body image. Dead Weight manages to bridge all three. Our conversation explores the cultural perceptions of anorexia and bulimia, the impact of diagnosis on identity, and the importance of pleasure and vitality in context of our perception of what…