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Craving earth : understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk
- Title
- Craving earth : understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk / Sera L. Young.
- Author
- Young, Sera L.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 228 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2153
- ISBN
- 9780231146081 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231146086 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010031789
- OCLC
- YBP 2010031789
- Author
- Young, Sera L.
- Title
- Craving earth : understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk / Sera L. Young.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2153