Healing in Unexpected Spaces

A Reflection of the Care Assemblage of My Master’s Thesis

Authors

Author Biography

  • Sarah Costantini, University of Guelph

    Sarah Costantini is a doctoral candidate at the University of Guelph. She holds a Master of Science from the University of Guelph and an Honours Bachelors of Arts from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on exploring avenues for care justice and challenging normative ways of approaching care and treatment for those living with and/or healing from eating disorders.

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Brannelly, Tula, and Marian Barnes. 2023. Researching with Care: Applying Feminist Care Ethics to Research Practice. Policy Press.

Costantini, Sarah. 2024. “Exploring the Ruling Relations of Eating Disorder Treatment: An Institutional Ethnography.” Master’s thesis, University of Guelph.

Geller, Josie, Nadia Maiolino, Lindsay Samson, and Suja Srikameswaran. 2021 “Is Experiencing Care as Collaborative Associated with Enhanced Outcomes in Inpatient Eating Disorders Treatment?” Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention 29(5): 539–549. doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2019.1695454.

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Published

2026-04-29