Edited by A. James Giannini and Andrew E. Slaby. 286 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1993. $89. ISBN 0-387-94002-2. By Hans F. Huebner. 272 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 1993. $34.95. ISBN 0-393-70156-5.
The Eating Disorders, written and edited, for the most part,by nonresearchers (and in several cases nonacademics), is wellwritten overall and useful, albeit uneven. It suffers most fromthe lack of a coherent design, which results in both omissionsand redundancies. The first two chapters, on the history ofanorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, read well, whereas thethird and fourth chapters, on the history and presentation ofobesity, are out of date, since they do not really address thetopic of binge eating. The next chapter, on the biologic basisof bulimia, basically recapitulates the hypothalamic model of. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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