SoS 89- An Excerpt from Famished with Dr. Rebecca Lester

This week we continue our series featuring book excerpts read by previous podcast guests. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Lester, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis , reads the Preface from her book, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America". We then rebroadcast her original interview (SoS 63, aired in March 2020), in which Dr. Lester discusses issues surrounding mental health in academia. Follow Dr. Lester on twitter @psychanthro, visit her website at https://rebeccalester.com/, or email her at RJLESTER@WUSTL.EDU Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner