Titlebook: Cultures of the Abdomen; Diet, Digestion, and Christopher E. Forth (Reader in History),Ana Carde Book 2005 Christopher E. Forth and Ana Car

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Weight Loss in the Age of Reasonlth maintenance to a regimen specifically designed to cure excess weight, which was increasingly defined as a pathological state. The various disagreements among different schools of medical thought only intensified the urgency with which they addressed the topic and losing weight eventually became fashionable, as it remains to this day.

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Introduction: The Belly and Beyond in modern Western societies post-Cartesian thought has often disqualified the body in favor of the mind, in everyday life the belly continues to bear considerable cultural weight. Embracing as it does much of the digestive system, physiologically the belly is the primary site of ., where food is di

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The Physiology of Hypochondria in Eighteenth-Century Britain of gastric rebellion in the polite interior were articulated in a series of medical manuals on hypochondria between the 1720s and the early 1800s. Physicians like George Cheyne, Bernard Mandeville, Robert Whytt, and William Smith josded to capture a slice of the market. What came first—the cannibal

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Corporeal Economiestion of our dietary intake, with the accompanying stigma that it attaches to fat, was not initially created in response to any real or imagined need to reduce the waistlines of the “well-fed classes:”. This science had its roots in the 1860s, when medical officers appointed by the British government

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and n from its original form. In Aztec society chocolate was drunk cold, spicy and bitter.. So why in the mid-nineteenth century did Europeans turn it into something sweet, sticky, creamy, and solid? The answer to this question lies in an analysis of the physical and symbolic resemblance of chocolate to

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Tolstoy’s Bodyphilosophical tradition and that became effectively dogmatized in the wake of Rene Descartes’s writings during the early modern period. Contemporary body theorists, especially those who adopt a feminist perspective, boldly reject the dualistic Cartesian model of the body as a machine distinct from,