Rumbles

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Richardson, Elsa

  • Titel: Rumbles : A Curious History of the GutThe Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ / Elsa Richardson
  • Person(en): Richardson, Elsa [Verfasser*in]
  • Organisation(en): Pegasus Books [Verlag]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 326 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
  • Erschienen: New York : Pegasus Books, 2024
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-1-63936-724-5 Festeinband : EUR 28.50
  • Signatur: RAT und TAT > Fit und Gesund
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Inhalt: 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?