Cultures of the abdomen : diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Forth, Christopher E., Carden-Coyne, Ana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Temas:
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
Abdomen > Aspect social.
Abdomen > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires.
Graisse (Physiologie)
Obésité.
Régimes alimentaires.
Mœurs et coutumes.
Changement social.
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
Fat
Food habits
United Kingdom
France
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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