Continuity and discontinuity in the hist
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Ron van Deth; Walter Vandereycken
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Overviewing the history of self-starvation, extreme fasting may be found in three different forms: a miracle, a spectacle, an illness. Referring to different contexts of interpretation, the transition from sainthood to patienthood suggests a discontinuous pattern in the history of self-starvation. O