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Title Cultures of the abdomen : diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world / edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne
Published Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of medical, social, and cultural ideas about the stomach and related organs since the 17th century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporary obsessions with diet, indigestion, regularity, and obesity. This book locates that history from religious ideals in pre-modern Europe to current surgical solutions to obesity in Brazil, surveying along the way developments in America, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and India. It reflects the methods of cultural history, and draws upon a range of disciplines from literary and gender studies to social, medical, and intellectual history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Abdomen -- Social aspects
Abdomen -- History
Food habits.
Fat.
Obesity.
Abdomen.
Diet in disease.
Manners and customs.
Social change.
Abdomen
Body Image
Obesity
Diet
Cultural Characteristics
Social Change
Feeding Behavior
fat.
customs (social concepts)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Social change
Manners and customs
Diet in disease
Abdomen
Fat
Food habits
Obesity
SUBJECT United Kingdom
France
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Forth, Christopher E.
Carden-Coyne, Ana.
ISBN 9781403981387
1403981388
9786611364960
661136496X
Other Titles Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world