Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World

Part One: Diet, Digestion, Excretion The Physiology of Hypochondria in Eighteenth-Century Britain; F.A.Jonsson Corporeal Economies: Work and Waste in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Alimentation; J.Huff Kakao and Kaka: Chocolate and the Excretory Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Europe; A.Moore American Guts and Military Manhood; A.Carden-Coyne Part Two: Culture and the Abdomen The Philosophe's Stomach: Hedonism, Hypochondria, and the Intellectual in Enlightenment France; A.C. Vila Coleridge's Dreaming Gut: Digestion, Genius, Hypochondria; G.Rousseau It's Alimentary: Feuerbach, Jewish "Brotstudium" and the Dietetics of Antisemitism; J.Geller Tolstoy's Body: Diet, Desire, and Denial; R.LeBlanc Part Three: Fat and Society * Weight Loss in the Age of Reason; K.Albala Useless and Pernicious Matter: Representing Corpulence in Eighteenth-Century Britain; L.Dacome "The Belly of Paris": The Decline of the Fat Man in Fin-de-Siècle France; C.E. Forth How Fat Detectives Think; S.Gilman Fat in America; P.N. Stearns