Cultures of the abdomen : diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world / edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

ix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Introduction : The belly and beyond : body, self, and culture in ancient and modern times / Ana Carden-Coyne and Christopher E. Forth -- Physiology of hypochrondria in eighteenth-century Britain / Fredrik Albritton Johnson -- Corporeal economies : work and waste in nineteenth-century constructions of alimentation / Joyce L. Huff -- "Kakao" and "kaka" : chocolate and the excretory imagination of nineteenth-century Europe / Alison Moore -- American guts and military manhood / Ana Carden-Coyne -- Philosophe's stomach : hedonism, hypochondria, and the intellectual in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila -- Coleridge's dreaming gut : digestion, genius, hypochondria / George Rousseau -- It's 'alimentary' : Feuerbach and the dietetics of antisemitism / Jay Geller -- Tolstoy's body : diet, desire, and denial / Ronald L. LeBlanc -- Weight loss in the age of reason / Ken Albala -- Useless and pernicious matter : corpulence in eighteenth-century England / Lucia Dacome -- Belly of Paris : the decline of the fat man in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth -- How fat detectives think / Sander L. Gilman -- Fat in America / Peter N. Stearns.

Includes bibliographical references and index.