| Description |
ix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The belly and beyond : body, self, and culture in ancient and modern times / Ana Carden-Coyne and Christopher E. Forth -- The physiology of hypochrondria in eighteenth-century Britain / Fredrik Albritton Johnson -- Corporeal economies : work and waste in nineteenth-century constructions of alimentation / Joyce L. Huff -- "Kakao" and "kaka" : chocolate and the excretory imagination of nineteenth-century Europe / Alison Moore -- American guts and military manhood / Ana Carden-Coyne -- The Philosophe's stomach : hedonism, hypochondria, and the intellectural in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila -- Coleridge's dreaming gut : digestion, genius, hypochondria / George Rousseau -- It's 'alimentary' : Feuerbach and the dietetics of antisemitism / Jay Geller -- Tolstoy's body : diet, desire, and denial / Ronald L. LeBlanc -- Weight loss in the age of reason / Ken Albala -- Useless and pernicious matter : corpulence in eighteenth-century England / Lucia Dacome -- The belly of Paris : the decline of the fat man in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth -- How fat detectives think / Sander L. Gilman -- Fat in America / Peter N. Stearns. |
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Abdomen -- Social aspects.
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Abdomen. |
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Social aspects. |
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Abdomen -- History.
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History. |
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Food habits.
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Food habits. |
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Fat.
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Fat. |
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Obesity.
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Obesity. |
| Added Author |
Forth, Christopher E.
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Carden-Coyne, Ana.
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| Added Title |
Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world |
| ISBN |
1403965218 hardcover alkaline paper |
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