Carden-Coyne, Ana
Cultures of the Abdomen
1. Introduction: The Belly and Beyond
Ana Carden-Coyne, Christopher E. Forth
Part I. Diet, Digestion, Excretion
2. The Physiology of Hypochondria in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
3. Corporeal Economies
Joyce L. Huff
4.
Alison Moore
5. American Guts and Military Manhood
Ana Carden-Coyne
Part II. Culture and the Abdomen
6. The
Anne C. Vila
7. Coleridge’s Dreaming Gut
George Rousseau
8. It’s “Alimentary”
Jay Geller
9. Tolstoy’s Body
Ronald L. LeBlanc
Part III. Fat and Society
10. Weight Loss in the Age of Reason
Ken Albala
11. Useless and Pernicious Matter
Lucia Dacome
12. “The Belly of Paris”
Christopher E. Forth
13. How Fat Detectives Think
Sander L. Gilman
14. Fat in America
Peter N. Stearns
Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Social History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Popular Science in Medicine and Health
- Editor
- Carden-Coyne, Ana
- Forth, Christopher E.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 273 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781403981387
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-52880-6