Craving earth : understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk / Sera L. Young.

  • Young, Sera L.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

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.

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  • 9780231146081
  • 0231146086
  • 9780231517898
  • 0231517890