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Africa — history
Some of the earliest evidence of medical practice comes from Africa. The Egyptians were well known, over 5000 years ago, for their advanced knowledge of medicine. Relics from the time ...
anorexia nervosa
A psychiatric illness in which the patients starve themselves or use other techniques, such as vomiting or taking laxatives, to induce weight loss. To fulfil ICD-10 criteria for anorexia nervosa a ...
binge-eating disorder
A condition (included in the DSM-IV appendix of conditions meriting further study, but not in the ICD-10 classification) characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, with similar signs and ...
binge-purge syndrome
A feature of the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, characterized by the ingestion of very large amounts of food and the excessive use of laxatives.
Body and Health
Feminists have long seen the female body as a contested site of institutional and personal power, and much nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminism has focused on the necessity for women to ...
bulimia nervosa
A psychiatric disorder characterized by episodes of binge eating and compensatory behaviour (self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse) combined with an excessive concern over weight and body shape. A ...
child health
Health services for children, usually school health services, sometimes an extension of maternal and child health services, sometimes both.
compulsion
n. an obsession that takes the form of a motor act, such as repetitive washing based on a fear of contamination, as seen in obsessive–compulsive disorder.
DSM-IV
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition) of the American Psychiatric Association, widely regarded as one of the most authoritative reference works on matters of ...
eating disorder not otherwise specified
An eating disorder that does not meet the full criteria for a specific eating disorder (see anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa). It is characterized by a preoccupation with body image and body weight, ...
Eating Disorders Reference library
Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)
Eating disorders involve maladaptive eating patterns accompanied by a wide range of physical complications likely to require extensive treatment. In
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Ruth Tobias
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
Eating disorders are, to be sure, a sign of the times. And yet, if the matrix of social values and
eating disorders Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Body
The modern term that covers all forms of the conditions known as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. It also
eating disorder Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
A continuum ranging from abnormal eating behaviours to clinical eating disorders Included in the continuum are norexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa...
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Arthur H. Crisp
The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)
probably first arose when eating became more than just an activity designed to satisfy energy needs; maintain body temperature; move, grow, and survive through puberty to the time of ...
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Lindsay Hogan
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
Only in relatively recent history have eating disorders been identified and treated as diseases. They were first identified and labeled by the medical community in Western cultures, where ...
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Donnalee Frega
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
Women's eating habits have long been recognized as a form of discourse, a complex metaphoric language of victimization, physicality, eroticism, and empowerment. In the Middle Ages, an age ...
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EDNOS
Eating disorder not otherwise specified. The subject has an eating disorder that is clinically significant, but does not fulfil the criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
education — history
The history of medical education is that of healing and of some exceptional personalities, who taught by example, and whose cumulative legacy continues in the modern medical profession. In ancient ...
exercise addiction
An unhealthy reliance on exercise for daily functioning. The exercise often becomes the main mechanism for coping with everyday stresses. Exercise addiction is characterized by dependence (a belief ...
