Cultures of the abdomen : diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world / edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne.
"Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of social, cultural, and medical ideas about the stomach and related organs since the seventeenth century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporar...
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| Other title: | Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Summary: | "Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of social, cultural, and medical ideas about the stomach and related organs since the seventeenth century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporary obsessions with hunger, diet, fat, indigestion, and excretion. It locates that history from dietary ideals in early modern Europe to the vexing issue of American fat in the twenty-first century, surveying along the way developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403965218 (hc : alk. paper) |