Hilde Bruch Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers December 5, 2016 Hilde Bruch and the Persistence of Eating Disorders Isabel Kirsch Clinical descriptions of eating disorders date back centuries, yet it took until the 1970s for the pioneering research of doctor, psychologist, and writer Hilde Bruch to bring the issue to public attention. Topics: Psychology and Psychiatry, Athletes, Non-Fiction http://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/hilde-bruch-and-persistence-of-eating-disorders Hilde Bruch publishes "The Importance of Overweight" March 4, 1957 When The Importance of Overweight was published on March 4, 1957, Hilde Bruch was already a leading childhood obesity researcher. http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch Hilde Bruch Hilde Bruch’s seminal work on eating disorders contributed significantly to understanding and treatment of the diseases in the 1970s.