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Hunger : an unnatural history / Sharman Apt Russell.

Title
  1. Hunger : an unnatural history / Sharman Apt Russell.
Published by
  1. New York : Basic Books, ©2005.
Author
  1. Russell, Sharman Apt.

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Description
  1. x, 262 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Analyzes the psychological and physical consequences of food deprivation and semi-starvation, discussing topics ranging from hunger strikes and religious fasts to cannibalism and anorexia nervosa.
Subject
  1. Hunger
  2. Sozialanthropologie
  3. Fasten
  4. Hunger > Social aspects
  5. Fasting > Social aspects
  6. Weight loss > Social aspects
  7. Fasting
  8. Social Conditions
  9. Weight Loss
  10. Fasting > Social aspects
  11. Hunger > Social aspects
  12. Weight loss > Social aspects
  13. Hunger
Contents
  1. The Hunger Artists -- Eighteen Hours -- Thirty-six Hours -- Seven Days -- Thirty Days -- The Hunger Strike -- The Hunger Disease Studies -- The Minnesota Experiment -- The Anthropology of Hunger -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Hungry Children -- The Protocols of Famine -- An End to Hunger -- The Top of the Mountain.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260).
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain