Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine Book

Intends to look at how obesity has transcended art, Literature and the history of medicine. This book sets out to put the obesity crisis in historical perspective. It examines the meaning of 'fat' in the public consciousness: from circus freaks to pharmacology, from 'John Bull' to Billy Bunter.Read More

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  • ASDA

    The UK is in the throes of an obesity epidemic. Life expectancy has been improving for centuries. This book sets out to put the obesity crisis in historical perspective. It examines the changing meaning of fat in the public consciousness: from circus freaks to pharmacology from John Bull to Billy Bunter.

  • Blackwell

    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...

  • Pickabook

    David Haslam, Fiona Haslam

  • 1846310946
  • 9781846310942
  • David W. Haslam, Fiona Haslam
  • 5 May 2009
  • Liverpool University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
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