“My Anorexia Was Not About Body Image” by Leslie Contreras Schwartz

An essay by alum Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry, ’11) appears at Dame Magazine:

While sitting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office recently, I found myself picking up an academic journal, when something caught my eye: an article called “The Starvation Experiment.” The article I read was about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, a research project between 1944–1945 in which volunteers underwent starvation for the purpose of studying the psychological effects on its subjects.

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