Abstract
The history of the concept of anorexia nervosa as a disease is in itself an exercise in the evolving understanding of a behavior as a medical illness, a normal adaptational variant, or a symptom of many medical illnesses. To this day the variable response to treatment suggests that while a definite diagnostic entity with a predictable symptom picture, illness course, and response to treatment may exist there also exists forme frustes of any number of other psychiatric and medical illnesses in the differential diagnoses that are phenomenologically similar.1
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Slaby, A.E., Dwenger, R. (1993). History of Anorexia Nervosa. In: Giannini, A.J., Slaby, A.E. (eds) The Eating Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8300-0_1
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