'makes an exemplary contribution to the historical analysis of disease. Miller joins an ongoing effort to use the history of disease to knit together and illuminate diverse aspects of social, environmental, and scientific history' Isis 'an illustration of the variety and rapid change of medical representations of an organ' American Historical Review

• Introduction: History and the Stomach; Chapter 1 The National Stomach: Indigestion and Nineteenth-Century British Society: An Overview; Chapter 2 The Ulcerated Stomach: Gastric Diagnosis and the Reorganization of Medical Knowledge, C. 1800–60; Chapter 3 The Laboratory Stomach: Gastric Analysis in an Era of Vivisection and Force-Feeding Controversies, C. 1870–1920; Chapter 4 The Surgical Stomach: Berkeley Moynihan’s Forgotten Surgical Revolution and Duodenal Ulcer Disease, C. 1880–1920; Chapter 5 The Psychosomatic Stomach: British Society, Wartime Dyspepsia and the Return of the Patient, C. 1920–45; Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks;

'makes an exemplary contribution to the historical analysis of disease. Miller joins an ongoing effort to use the history of disease to knit together and illuminate diverse aspects of social, environmental, and scientific history' Isis 'an illustration of the variety and rapid change of medical representations of an organ' American Historical Review

• Introduction: History and the Stomach; Chapter 1 The National Stomach: Indigestion and Nineteenth-Century British Society: An Overview; Chapter 2 The Ulcerated Stomach: Gastric Diagnosis and the Reorganization of Medical Knowledge, C. 1800–60; Chapter 3 The Laboratory Stomach: Gastric Analysis in an Era of Vivisection and Force-Feeding Controversies, C. 1870–1920; Chapter 4 The Surgical Stomach: Berkeley Moynihan’s Forgotten Surgical Revolution and Duodenal Ulcer Disease, C. 1880–1920; Chapter 5 The Psychosomatic Stomach: British Society, Wartime Dyspepsia and the Return of the Patient, C. 1920–45; Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks;