{"product_id":"appetite-and-its-discontents-elizabeth-a-williams-9780226693040","title":"Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950","description":"Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In \u003ci\u003eAppetite and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite--once a matter of personal inclination--became an object of science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth A. Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022669304X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226693040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Elizabeth A. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096662810879,"sku":"9780226693040","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/appetite-and-its-discontents-elizabeth-a-williams-9780226693040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}