Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting girls: the emergence of anorexia nervosa as a modern disease, Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 366, illus., £19.95, $25.00.

Joan Busfield

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Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting girls: the emergence of anorexia nervosa as a modern disease, Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 366, illus., £19.95, $25.00.

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Information: Medical History , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 453 - 454

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Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting girls: the emergence of anorexia nervosa as a modern disease, Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 366, illus., £19.95, $25.00.

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