Eating Disorders, 3rd Edition, 9781421423432
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Eating Disorders, 3rd Edition

a guide to medical care and complications

$92.25

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2017

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Summary

Eating disorders present diagnostic and treatment challenges to clinicians. While such disorders need both medical and psychological treatment, patients may be too medically ill for a thorough psychiatric evaluation and may be misunderstood by many primary care physicians. In this book, Drs. Philip S. Mehler and Arnold E. Andersen provide a user-friendly and comprehensive guide for primary care physicians, mental health professionals, and others who encounter patients who have eating disorder…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781421423432
ISBN-10:142142343X
Author:Philip S. Mehler
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:Johns Hopkins University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Edition:3rd
Release Date:14 November 2017
Weight:656g
Dimensions:228mm x 152mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“This book provides useful and practical information to practitioners who are new to the care of patients with eating disorders while serving as a reference for those with more experience.”

–Annals of Internal Medicine “This book accomplishes the difficult task of merging psychiatric and medical diagnostic and treatment considerations.”

–Doody’s Review Service “An excellent guide to the medical issues connected with eating disorders.”

–Psychiatric Services “A winner.”

–Midwest Book Review

About The Author

Philip S. Mehler

Philip S. Mehler, MD, FAED, is the chief medical officer at the Eating Recovery Center, the founder and executive medical director of Denver Health’s ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders, and the Glassman Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Arnold E. Andersen, MD, is emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and the former director of the Eating Disorders Program at Iowa and Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor of Males with Eating Disorders and the coauthor of Making Weight: Men’s Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape, and Appearance.

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