Appetite and its discontents : science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1950 /: science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1950. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth A. Williams.
• Authors: Williams, Elizabeth A (Elizabeth Ann), 1950-
• Contents: List of Illustrations Introduction Part One Anxieties of Appetite: Created Needs in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800 Introduction to Part One 1 Why We Eat: The Ancient Legacy 2 'False or Defective' Appetite in the Medical Enlightenment 3 Human and Animal Appetite in Natural History and Physiology Part Two The Elusiveness of Appetite: Laboratory and Clinic, 1800–1850 Introduction to Part Two 4 Perils and Pleasures of Appetite at 1800: Xavier Bichat and Erasmus Darwin 5 The Physiology of Appetite to 1850 6 Extremes and Perplexities of Appetite in Clinical Medicine Part Three Intelligent or 'Blind and Unconscious'? Appetite, 1850–1900 Introduction to Part Three 7 The Drive to Eat in Nutritional Physiology 8 The Psychology of Ingestion: Appetite in Physiological and Animal Psychology 9 Peripheral or Central? Disordered Eating in Clinical Medicine Part Four Appetite as a Scientific Object, 1900–1950 Introduction to Part Four 10 Psyche, Nerves, and Hormones in the Physiology of Ingestion 11 Appetite and the Nature-Nurture Divide: Eating Behavior in Psychology and Ethology 12 Somatic, Psychic, Psychosomatic: The Medicine of Troubled Appetite Epilogue: Appetite after 1950 Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.3; Appetite -- Research -- History; Appetite -- Research -- History -- 19th century; Appetite -- Research -- History -- 18th century; Appetite -- Research -- History -- 20th century; Appetite disorders -- Research -- History; Science -- History; Medicine -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226693187
• Related ISBNs: 9780226692999; 9780226693040
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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