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Edited by Christopher G. Fairburn and G. Terence Wilson. 419 pp. New York, Guilford Press, 1993. $40. ISBN 0-89862-995-0.

Research news on nutrition, eating behavior, and body weight is currently capturing headlines in the medical literature and the popular press. This multiauthored book provides a timely, comprehensive overview of current research on bulimia nervosa, for which binge eating is a sine qua non, and explores the role of binge eating in anorexia nervosa and obesity.

In their preface, the editors state, "Some books seem contrived: To us this book seemed almost a necessity." The prospective reader may indeed wonder whether a book whose focus is binge eating can accurately portray the complex behavioral and medical symptoms associated with bulimia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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