Rumbles

A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ

von Elsa Richardson

336 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The fascinating—and often secret—history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut.> Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, cultural historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a lively tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system. We'll meet a wildly diverse cast of characters including Edwardian bodybuilders, hunger-striking suffragettes, demons, medieval alchemists, and one poor teenage girl plagued by a remarkably vocal gut, all united by this singular organ. Engaging, eye-opening, and thought-provoking, Rumbles leaves no stone unturned, scrutinizing religious tracts and etiquette guides, satirical cartoons, and political pamphlets, in its quest to answer the millennia-old question: Are we really ruled by our stomachs?

• ISBN: 9781639367245
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2024
• Größe: 232 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Pegasus Books