Contributions

  • Forth, Christopher E. - Contributor
  • Carden-Coyne, Ana. - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCGT498.A24 C85 2005

Alternate Titles

  • Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world

Description

"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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  • Cultures of the abdomen: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern worldPalgrave Macmillan2005-01-01

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