Appetite and Its Discontents

Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950

AvElizabeth A Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Why do we eat? Is it instinct, or some other impetus? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread in our culture, and scientists and physicians continue to have shifting theories about the phenomenon of appetite and its causes and norms. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. Williams argues that trust in appetite was undermined in the mid-eighteenth century, when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. Tracing nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite, Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite--once a matter of personal inclination--became an object of science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:648 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226693040

Utforska kategorier

Fysiologi inom Medicin
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Naturvetenskapens historia inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Elizabeth A. Williams is professor emerita of history at Oklahoma State University.

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"An exceptionally well-researched and detailed examination of appetite as an object of scientific and medical inquiry. Despite its strict focus on disciplinary debates, the gendered dimensions of appetite, particularly appetite disorders, is afforded attention throughout the book. Williams is careful to comment on the oppressive aspects of health as defined by scientific medicine and the potentially stigmatizing effects for those who deviate from normative frameworks. Graduate students and scholars interested in medicalization and healthism would benefit from reading this work. Fat studies scholars may also find this book of interest as Williams discusses the shifting conceptualization of 'obesity' and the drive toward thinness as a marker of health and well-being."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsIntroductionPart One Anxieties of Appetite: Created Needs in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800Introduction to Part One1 Why We Eat: The Ancient Legacy2 “False or Defective” Appetite in the Medical Enlightenment3 Human and Animal Appetite in Natural History and PhysiologyPart Two The Elusiveness of Appetite: Laboratory and Clinic, 1800–1850Introduction to Part Two4 Perils and Pleasures of Appetite at 1800: Xavier Bichat and Erasmus Darwin5 The Physiology of Appetite to 18506 Extremes and Perplexities of Appetite in Clinical MedicinePart Three Intelligent or “Blind and Unconscious”? Appetite, 1850–1900Introduction to Part Three7 The Drive to Eat in Nutritional Physiology8 The Psychology of Ingestion: Appetite in Physiological and Animal Psychology9 Peripheral or Central? Disordered Eating in Clinical MedicinePart Four Appetite as a Scientific Object, 1900–1950Introduction to Part Four10 Psyche, Nerves, and Hormones in the Physiology of Ingestion11 Appetite and the Nature-Nurture Divide: Eating Behavior in Psychology and Ethology12 Somatic, Psychic, Psychosomatic: The Medicine of Troubled AppetiteEpilogue: Appetite after 1950AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex