Thesis
Towards the definition of an 'eating disorder'
- Abstract:
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This dissertation is concerned with the diagnosis and classification of clinical eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. There were four overarching aims. The first was to describe the clinical characteristics of patients with the neglected DSM-FV eating disorder diagnosis "eating disorder NOS" and compare them with those of patients with bulimia nervosa. It was found that the two groups were remarkably similar. The second was to examine how the classificatory problems ...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2006
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:603825118
- Source identifiers:
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603825118
- Deposit date:
- 2013-01-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Bohn, Kristin Sonja
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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