Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One Anxieties of Appetite: Created Needs in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800
Introduction to Part One
1 Why We Eat: The Ancient Legacy
2 “False or Defective” Appetite in the Medical Enlightenment
3 Human and Animal Appetite in Natural History and Physiology
Part Two The Elusiveness of Appetite: Laboratory and Clinic, 1800–1850
Introduction to Part Two
4 Perils and Pleasures of Appetite at 1800: Xavier Bichat and Erasmus Darwin
5 The Physiology of Appetite to 1850
6 Extremes and Perplexities of Appetite in Clinical Medicine
Part Three Intelligent or “Blind and Unconscious”? Appetite, 1850–1900
Introduction to Part Three
7 The Drive to Eat in Nutritional Physiology
8 The Psychology of Ingestion: Appetite in Physiological and Animal Psychology
9 Peripheral or Central? Disordered Eating in Clinical Medicine
Part Four Appetite as a Scientific Object, 1900–1950
Introduction to Part Four
10 Psyche, Nerves, and Hormones in the Physiology of Ingestion
11 Appetite and the Nature-Nurture Divide: Eating Behavior in Psychology and Ethology
12 Somatic, Psychic, Psychosomatic: The Medicine of Troubled Appetite
Epilogue: Appetite after 1950
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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