Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity by Sander L. Gilman

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

237 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction health challenging informative slow-paced

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This fascinating new book looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction relating to obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day. Written as a cultural history, it is concerned with the cultural meanings that h...

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