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This unique handbook presents and integrates virtually all that is currently known about eating disorders and obesity in one authoritative, accessible, and eminently practical volume. From leading international authorities, 101 concise chapters clearly synthesize the latest information on all pertinent topics, from biological issues and social variables associated with risk, to research findings and clinical methods for measurement and treatment.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Part I Regulation of Eating and Weight
• Central Physiological Determinants of Eating Behavior and Body Weight
• Peripheral Physiological Determinants of Eating and Body Weight
• The Psychobiological Approach to Appetite and Weight Control
• Genetic Influences on Body Weight and Shape
• Energy Intake and Body Weight
• Effects of Energy Imbalance on Energy Stores and Body Weight
• Body Composition
• A Set-Points Model of Body Weight and Weight Gain
• Effects of Weight Cycling on Metabolism, Health, and Psychological Factors
• Cigarette Smoking and Body Weight
• Body Weight and Age
• Part II Dieting and Body Image
• Social Influences on Body Weight
• Cultural Influences on Eating Disorders
• Dieting and Its Relation to Eating Disorders
• The Controversy Over Dieting
• Part III Measurement
• Measurement of wwdy Energy Stores
• Measurement of Food Intake
• Measurement of Energy Expenditure
• Measurement of Physical Activity
• Measurement of Eating Disorder Psychopathology
• Part IV Classification, Clinical Characteristics, and History of Eating Disorders
• Classification and Diagnosis of Eating Disorders
• Atypical Eating Disorders
• History of Anorexia
• The History of Bulimia and Bulimia Nervosa
• The Clinical Presentation of Anorexia and Bulima Nervosa
• Eating Disroders and Their Relation to Mood and Anxiety
• Eating Disorders and Addictive Disorders
• Personality and Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders in Males
• Childhood-Onset Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders and Childrearing
• Eating Disorders in Athletes
• Part V Epidemiology, Etiology, and Course of Eating Disorders
• The Development and Maintenance of Eating Disorders
• The Distribution of Eating Disorders
• Family-Genetic Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
• The Families of Patients With and Eating Disorder
• A Feminist Perspective on the Etiology of Eating Disorders
• Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders
• The Course and Outcome of Anorexia Nervosa
• Outcome of Bulimia Nervosa
• Part VI Physiological and Medical Aspects of Eating Disorders
• Hunger and Satiety in Clinical Eating Disorders
• The Physiology of Anorexia
• Neurotransmitters and Anorexia Nervosa
• The Physiology of Bulimia Nervosa
• Medical Complications of Anorexia Nervosa
• Medical Complications of Bulimia Nervosa
• Eating Disorders and Diabetes

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CHOICE Review

The edited Eating Disorders and Obesity is an exceptional amalgamation of current literature regarding the causes, consequences, and risk factors associated with eating disorders and obesity. This edition provides insight from sociological, psychological, biological, and genetic stances, while also supplying the reader with information related to policy, prevention, and treatment on an individual, community, and global scale. Often, eating disorders and obesity are misunderstood in our society. This edition constructs a landscape for readers that allows them to view both eating disorders and obesity from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a more complex and intricate problem than what is often portrayed by the popular press. This edition serves as an effective complement to Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies (CH, Apr'06, 43-4971), edited by Kelly D. Brownell, Rebecca M. Puhl, Marlene B. Schwartz, and Leslie Rudd. The work under review serves as a timely resource and will be appropriate for scholars and professionals who wish to examine the topic in further detail. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals. --Caitlyn Hauff, University of South Alabama

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. An internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation, he has served as president of several national organizations and has received numerous awards and honors for his work. His recent publications include [ital]Behavioral Medicine and Women[ital] (coedited with Elaine A. Blechman).

Christopher G. Fairburn, D.M., F.R.C.Psych., is Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Reader in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. A well-known international authority on eating disorders with research programs in Britain and the United States, he is coeditor (with G. Terence Wilson) of Binge Eating and author of Overcoming Binge Eating.