Obesity : the biography

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Label

Obesity : the biography

Title remainder

the biography

Statement of responsibility

Sander L. Gilman

Creator

• Gilman, Sander L

Subject

• Body image -- Social aspects
• Body image -- Social aspects | History
• Electronic books
• Geschichte
• History
• Kultur
• Obesity -- Social aspects
• Obesity -- Social aspects
• Obesity -- Social aspects | History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Übergewicht
• Body image -- Social aspects

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more mechanical and practical concerns from the Enlightenment onwards

Member of

• Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.4613

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

RC628

LC item number

.G55 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

RC628

NAL item number

.G55 2010

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Biographies of disease