title: Bulimia in British blacks and Asians. A catchment area study.
abstract: This paper describes the demographic and clinical features of five non-white, normal body weight bulimics, all from the same catchment area. Comparisons with white bulimic referrals from the same area showed clinical similarities, but the non-white bulimics gave an account of gross emotional deprivation: all came from broken homes; four had been separated for long periods from their mothers; two had been subjected to incestuous abuse; and four had been cared for by white women. Response to treatment was poor. The ratio of non-white referral to white was at most one tenth of the ratio of non-white to white women in the catchment area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lacey
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Dolan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D044383:Black People; D002032:Bulimia / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008393:Marriage; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications