Haslam, D: Fat, Gluttony and Sloth Obesity in Medicine, Art and Literature
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.07.2009
Verlag
Liverpool University PressSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
24.4/18.8/2 cm
Gewicht
794 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84631-094-2
Historical symbol of wealth and fertility, stigma of the modern West, and currently the world's second-leading cause of preventable death: despite advances in hygiene, science, and public health, obesity and its corpulent imagery are inescapable reminders of a global epidemic and its manifold incarnations. For the first time, the number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of those malnourished and in "Fat, Gluttony, and Sloth," the current crisis is put in historical perspective. The authors examine the changing meaning of "fat" in the public consciousness--reconsidering art, literature, and the history of medicine alongside circus freaks, pharmacology, and present-day trends in food and fashion--all in an effort to glean knowledge from examining our heavy past.
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