1 option
Appetite and its discontents : science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1950 / Elizabeth A. Williams.
LIBRA QP136 .W55 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appetite--Research--History.
- Appetite.
- Appetite--Research--History--19th century.
- Appetite--Research--History--18th century.
- Appetite--Research--History--20th century.
- Appetite disorders--Research--History.
- Appetite disorders.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Feeding and Eating Disorders--history.
- Science--history.
- History of Medicine.
- Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Appetite.
- Feeding and Eating Disorders--history.
- Science--history.
- History of Medicine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 433 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Historians have begun to explore why and how eating has become problematic for more and more people. But so far little attention has been given to the problem of appetite -- the changing ways that the appetite for food is formed or how the views of scientific and medical experts on the subject have developed over time. In this book, Elizabeth Williams traces the history of academic inquiry into appetite's nature and functioning in the two centuries between 1750 and 1950, from the mid-Enlightenment to the dawn of big science. She reveals how appetite and eating came to be an object of scientific study by turning to advances in physiology, natural history, medicine, and, from the late nineteenth century, psychology and ethology. The author's goals are capacious, however, for she aims not only to convey the development of the science but, in so doing, to root out the cause of our modern nutritional disarray"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Anxieties of appetite : Created needs in the Enlightenment, 1750-1800
- The elusiveness of appetite : laboratory and clinic, 1800-1850
- Intelligent or "blind and unconscious"? Appetite, 1850-1900
- Appetite as a scientific object, 1900-1950.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780226693040
- 9780226692999
- 022669299X
- 022669304X
- OCLC:
- 1111949110
- Publisher Number:
- 99984752908
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.