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Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia de Sander L. Gilman

Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia

Autor Sander L. Gilman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2009
Diets and dieting have concerned—and sometimes obsessed—human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. An A to Z encyclopedia, this innovative reference work spans many periods and cultures as the acclaimed cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a fascinating series of articles.
This volume is a reference tool presenting the historical, popular, and scientific context for diets and dieting from the ancient world to the present. The entries range from biography to large survey essays, which cover the historical and cultural context as well as the practice of dieting. The entries are truly international in scope, and present the context for contemporary dieting culture and celebrity within the longer historical view and across cultures.
Sample entries include:
Advertising
Anorexia
Robert Atkins
Bariatric Surgery
Bodybuilding
Brillat-Savarin
Christianity
China Today
Fast Food
Fat Positive
Gandhi
Globalization
Greek Medicine
John Harvey Kellogg
Medieval Diets
Paleolithic Diets
Vegetarianism
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415801935
ISBN-10: 0415801931
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 219 x 276 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

List of Entries. 
Introduction. 
Entries A-Z. 
Bibliography. 
Index.

Notă biografică

Sander Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is author and editor of more then seventy books including Multiculturalism and the Jews, The Jew’s Body and Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient, all published by Routledge.
 
 

Recenzii

"Written and compiled by cultural historian Sander Gilman...Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia is a superbly organized and alphabetically presented encyclopedia comprised of biographies and survey essays covering the scope, history, and culture of diets and dieting.  From Robert Atkins and Anorexia to Fast Food and Globalization, to John Harvey Kellogg and Vegetarianism, Diets and Dieting is a wealth of information that offers a unique, comprehensive, informed, informative, 'user friendly,' and very highly recommended contribution to personal, professional, academic, and community library Health & Medicine and Cultural Studies reference collections." --James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review
"[A]n excellent cultural history of diets and dieting.... Concise and informative, it will make a nice addition to public or small academic libraries.’— Library Journal
"Diets and Dieting is a wealth of information … unique, comprehensive, informed, informative, ‘user friendly,’ and very highly recommended …."—The Midwest Book Review

Descriere

Diets and dieting have concerned--and sometimes obsessed--human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. In this innovative reference work that spans many periods and cultures, the acclaimed cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a fascinating series of articles.