Obesity : the biography

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Obesity : the biography

Sander L. Gilman

Oxford University Press, 2010

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"Biographies of disease"--On jacket

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index

Contents of Works

  • The exemplary patient
  • Obesity from the Ancients to the beginning of the Modern Age
  • Obesity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • The battle between science and morality for the cure of obesity
  • A somatic or psychological treatment of obesity
  • New causes : new solutions for obesity
  • The "Orient" battles obesity
  • Globesity and the Public's health

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