Craving Earth: Understanding Pica--the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk

Sera Young

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Paper, 240 pages, 20 halftones, 16 line drawings, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14609-8
$22.50 / £15.50

February, 2011
Cloth, 240 pages, 20 halftones, 16 line drawings, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14608-1
$29.50 / £19.50

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  About the Author

  Sera Young is a Reproductive and Infectious Diseases Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a faculty member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

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