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The case for biology in the aetiology of anorexia nervosa1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

J. Treasure  and
I. Campbell
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 3 - 8
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