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
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Abdomen -- History
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Food habits.
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Fat.
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Obesity.
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Abdomen.
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Diet in disease.
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Manners and customs.
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Social change.
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Abdomen
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Body Image
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Obesity
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Diet
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Cultural Characteristics
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Social Change
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Feeding Behavior
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fat.
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customs (social concepts)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Social change
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Manners and customs
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Diet in disease
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Abdomen
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Fat
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Food habits
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Obesity
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SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
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France |
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United States |
Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Forth, Christopher E.
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Carden-Coyne, Ana.
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ISBN |
9781403981387 |
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1403981388 |
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9786611364960 |
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661136496X |
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