| Portion of title |
Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world |
| 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 intellectual 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004050508 |
| ISBN | 9781403965219 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1403965218 (hc : alk. paper) |
