Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
`When someone is taken into hospital dehydrated and malnourished, we have to make a choice. You may say “I don't have to do anything. Thank God I'm not a doctor, I'm a philosopher and my job is to think, not to act”'.

This snatch of a conversation is related by the author in an ironic vein. Yet