Fatness: Concepts and Perceptions in Western European Medicine c. 1700-1900
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Fatness : Concepts and Perceptions in Western European Medicine c. 1700-1900. / Hansen, Anne Katrine Kleberg.
Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, 2014. 234 p.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Fatness
T2 - Concepts and Perceptions in Western European Medicine c. 1700-1900
AU - Hansen, Anne Katrine Kleberg
N1 - Ikke offentliggjort
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In 1727, the English physician Thomas Short wrote: “I believe no Age did ever afford more instances of Corpulency than our own.” Even in the 18th century, fatness was addressed as an issue of special contemporary concern. This thesis probes concepts and perceptions of fatness in Western European Medicine c. 1700–1900. It has been written with particular attention to whether and how fatness has been regarded as a disease during that period in history. One purpose of the thesis is to investigate the immediate period before fatness allegedly became problematized. Another purpose has been to grasp both its presence in medicine and the – sometimes strange – absence in both centuries.
AB - In 1727, the English physician Thomas Short wrote: “I believe no Age did ever afford more instances of Corpulency than our own.” Even in the 18th century, fatness was addressed as an issue of special contemporary concern. This thesis probes concepts and perceptions of fatness in Western European Medicine c. 1700–1900. It has been written with particular attention to whether and how fatness has been regarded as a disease during that period in history. One purpose of the thesis is to investigate the immediate period before fatness allegedly became problematized. Another purpose has been to grasp both its presence in medicine and the – sometimes strange – absence in both centuries.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Overvægt
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Fatness
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
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