Answer each question in at least 2 paragraphs. Use proper grammar and spelling. If you mention any outside information, please list your references at the end of the assignment in APA formatting. Chapter 3 question: Anorexia nervosa and bulimia were once common only in North America and Europe, but now they occur worldwide. Experts say that the growing prevalence of eating disorders is caused by young women trying to emulate models and actors, who often are unrealistically slim or trying to get that way. For example, prior to 1995, the island of Fiji had no television and very few cases of eating disorders among young women. However, after the introduction of television in 1995, with broadcasts of shows from Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the incidence of eating disorders rose to 15%. To what extent, and in what ways, do you think media images affect women’s susceptibility to eating disorders? Chapter 4 question: Comment on this point of view: People have been having babies “naturally” for thousands of years. Nowadays, however, childbirth is entirely too medicalized, with birth classes, hospital delivery rooms, anesthesia, fetal monitoring, episiotomy, labor induction, cesareans, circumcision of male infants, and bottle feeding.
