Bøker av Sander L. (Emory University Gilman

Discusses why such social problems as addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, racial predisposition for illness, surgery and beauty, and electrotherapy, which concerned thinkers a hundred years ago, are reappearing at a staggering rate and in diverse national contexts.

Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm. This work lays out the history of diets and dieting in a series of articles.