- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 228 p.) : ill., map.
- Uniform Title
- Craving earth (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Craving earth (Online)
- Subject
- Pica (Pathology)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]--214)and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2010031789
- OCLC
- ssj0000483600
- Author
Young, Sera L.
- Title
Craving earth [electronic resource] : 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 (p. [178]--214)and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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