Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

ISBN: 9781788167550
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Publisher,Profile Books
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Format, Hardcover
Weight, 440 g
No. of Pages, 336

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Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024

'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining journey through the gut-brain connection'
TIFFANY WATT SMITH, author of The Book of Human Emotions

'A thrilling and surprising journey into the science and culture of an organ that refuses to be civilised'
PAUL CRADDOCK, author of Spare Parts


Have you ever had a 
gut feeling? Found something hard to stomach? Have you gone belly up under pressure? Did you pull yourself together and show some guts?

The growls and gurgles of our digestive system are a constant reminder of the physical work it does to keep our bodies running. But throughout history, humans have puzzled over how this rowdy organ might influence us in other ways, from our emotional states and mental well-being to the decisions we make and even our sense of self.

Through Ancient Greece and Victorian England, eighteenth-century France and contemporary America, cultural historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a lively tour of all the ways we've tried to make sense of this endlessly fascinating (and sometimes embarrassing) body part. From etiquette guides and diet advice to medieval alchemy and microbiology, she reveals that the gut-brain connection may be a modern obsession, but the question of whether we are ruled by our stomachs is as old as humanity itself.

 

About the Author

Elsa Richardson is an academic at the University of Strathclyde. She holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH). In addition to lecturing in the history of medicine and her own research, she also curates arts and science events for public institutions, including the Wellcome Collection. In 2018/19 she was named one of the BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.2 x 3.4 x 22.2 cm

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