Craving earth : understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk

Craving earth understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Young, Sera L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia Univ. Press 2011
Schlagworte:
Pica (Pathology) > Pica / ethnology > Pica / history > Food Habits / psychology > Pica > Ernährungspsychologie > Ethnologie > Ernährungsgewohnheit
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
What on earth? -- A biocultural approach : a holistic way to study pica -- Medicine you can walk on -- Religious geophagy : sacredness you can swallow -- Poisons and pathogens -- Dismissal and damnation : a historical perspective on the purported causes of pica -- Pica in response to food shortage -- Pica as a micronutrient supplement -- Pica to protect and detoxify -- Putting the pica pieces together
Beschreibung:XIV, 228 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9780231146081
978-0-231-14608-1
0231146086 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231517898 (ebook)
0231517890 (ebook)