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At Radcliffe, Anne E. Becker is working through data collected in Fiji to unpack the social context of eating disorders and suicidal ideation among adolescent girls.

Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office

Fijian girls succumb to Western dysmorphia

In 1982, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Anne E. Becker was still an undergraduate at Radcliffe when she traveled to Fiji for a summer of anthropology fieldwork.

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