New global perspectives on eating disorders

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 433-437

  Becker, Anne E ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE;

EID: 17644391041     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-004-1063-9     Document Type: Editorial

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