Eating disorders in Italy: a historical
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Giovanni Maria Ruggiero; Marcello Prandin; Mario Mantero
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper reviews the history of medical knowledge of eating disorders in Italy. It starts with the first examples of the medical interpretation of starvation during the Middle and Renaissance Ages, continues with the seminal figure of Brugnoli in the late XIX century, describes the ne