Adrienne Rose Bitar

Diet and the Disease of Civilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Diet books have been some of the bestselling books of the 20th century and, upon close reading, reveal new philosophies depicting civilization itself as a disease and diet as the cure. Bitar shows how diet books serve as utopian manifestos for a better body, a healthier society, and a more perfect world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 227mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589640
• ISBN-10: 0813589649
• Artikelnr.: 50498845

Autorenporträt

ADRIENNE ROSE BITAR is an American cultural critic specializing in food, health, and concepts of American civilization. She is a postdoctoral associate in the history department at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 3
1 Paleolithic Diets and the Caveman Utopia 26
2 Devotional Diets and the American Eden 52
3 Primitive Diets and the “Paradise Paradox” 85
4 Detoxification Diets and Concepts of a Toxic Modernity 119
Conclusion 149
Acknowledgments 162
Notes 166
Bibliography 205
Index 225