From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls
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Publisher : Athlone Press
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ISBN-10 : 0485241005
ISBN-13 : 9780485241006
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Book Synopsis From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls by : Walter Vandereycken

Download or read book From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls written by Walter Vandereycken and published by Athlone Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the centuries self-starvation has taken many morbid guises. This story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a modern disease.


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