Craving earth
Subtitle: understanding pica : the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk
By: Sera L. Young
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780231146081; 9780231517898
Subjects: Ethnology; Psychology; Food Habits; History; Pica (Pathology); Pica
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]--214)and index.
Table of contents: title: What on earth?; title: A biocultural approach : a holistic way to study pica; title: Medicine you can walk on; title: Religious geophagy : sacredness you can swallow; title: Poisons and pathogens; title: Dismissal and damnation : a historical perspective on the purported causes of pica; title: Pica in response to food shortage; title: Pica as a micronutrient supplement; title: Pica to protect and detoxify; title: Putting the pica pieces together.