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Hunger : an unnatural history / Sharman Apt Russell.

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

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x, 262 pages; 22 cm
Summary
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
  • Hunger
  • Sozialanthropologie
  • Fasten
  • Hunger > Social aspects
  • Fasting > Social aspects
  • Weight loss > Social aspects
  • Fasting
  • Social Conditions
  • Weight Loss
  • Fasting > Social aspects
  • Hunger > Social aspects
  • Weight loss > Social aspects
  • Hunger
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0465071635
  • 9780465071630
  • 0465071651
  • 9780465071654
LCCN
^^2005008034
OCLC
  • 63187110
  • SCSB-11024403
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library