Author: MACLEOD, SHEILA
Title: The Art of Starvation - A Story of Anorexia and Survival
Description: Shocken, 1982, First American Edition. 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardback, small 8vo, xi + 181 pages, VG in G+ dj (dj in new protective mylar). Red remainder mark bottom edge, two sentences underlined in ballpoint & a tiny printing hickey on one page o/w tight binding, no names, no bookplates. DJ wear fore-edges and corners and minor chipping spine-ends (pea-sized chip head of spine). Notes. No index. Includes a general history of the disease (described as a nervous consumption as early as 1689 by English physician Richard Morton). Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Medicine Psychology Psychiatry Mental Illness Eating Obsession Obsessional Disorders Anorexia Nervosa