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Fat & thin : a natural history of obesity Anne Scott Beller
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.735
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beller, Anne Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity.
- Obesity--Social aspects.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
- Contents:
- Geography : some latitudes and longitudes of human size
- Genetics : "The virtues of their sires"
- Women : Venus as endomorph
- Pregnancy : is motherhood fattening?
- Somatotype : butchers, bakers, and Harvard men
- Hormones : the endocrinology of everyday life
- Physiology : "Ventrem omnipotentem"
- Psychology : the brain as a digestive organ
- Psychobiology : fat rats and starving undergraduates
- Ecology : moveable feasts
- Solutions : "Fasting as fast as we can"
- Feast, famine, and physique.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0374219648
- 9780374219642
- OCLC:
- 2965913
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