title: Eating disorders and the media.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In June 2015, the newspapers in England once again pointed at the media industry as responsible for the spread of eating disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This article reviews this argument and previous research on the role of the media industry in the perpetration of images that may foster eating disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It has been recently argued, coherently with previous research, that the media may be responsible for the spread of eating disorders. This article reviews this literature, and evaluates what the real role of the media in the spread of eating disorders is. The article argues that considering the portrait of thin models in the media industry as responsible for eating disorders is a misanalysis of the problem and evaluates some of the more profound reasons that may lead to the adoption of the disordered eating symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Reader in Bioethics, CSEP, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M139PL, England.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giordano
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D001504:Beauty; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002605:Character; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012945:Social Values; D013851:Thinness / Q000209:etiology