![]() Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4440-0
Hardcover
200 pages
November 2008, Polity
US $64.95
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- fascinating new book on obesity which charts its cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day
- very engaging and on a very topical subject – this book should attract lots of review coverage and a trade audience
- Sander L. Gilman is very well known in the US and the UK for his previous books in the History of Medicine and psychoanalysis
- full of details, facts, and cultural observations with examples literature and the media across the world
- vivid and absorbing cultural guide to one of the most important topics in modern society



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