Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Anxieties of Appetite: Created Needs in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800
6. Introduction to Part One 19
7. One. Why We Eat: The Ancient Legacy 23
8. Two. “False or Defective” Appetite in the Medical Enlightenment 40
9. Three. Human and Animal Appetite in Natural History and Physiology 54
10. Part Two. The Elusiveness of Appetite: Laboratory and Clinic, 1800–1850
11. Introduction to Part Two 73
12. Four. Perils and Pleasures of Appetite at 1800: Xavier Bichat and Erasmus Darwin 77
13. Five. The Physiology of Appetite to 1850 90
14. Six. Extremes and Perplexities of Appetite in Clinical Medicine 111
15. Part Three. Intelligent or “Blind and Unconscious”? Appetite, 1850–1900
16. Introduction to Part Three 129
17. Seven. The Drive to Eat in Nutritional Physiology 133
18. Eight. The Psychology of Ingestion: Appetite in Physiological and Animal Psychology 152
19. Nine. Peripheral or Central? Disordered Eating in Clinical Medicine 172
20. Part Four. Appetite as a Scientific Object, 1900–1950
21. Introduction to Part Four 189
22. Ten. Psyche, Nerves, and Hormones in the Physiology of Ingestion 194
23. Eleven. Appetite and the Nature-Nurture Divide: Eating Behavior in Psychology and Ethology 217
24. Twelve. Somatic, Psychic, Psychosomatic: The Medicine of Troubled Appetite 241
25. Epilogue. Appetite after 1950 273
26. Acknowledgments 289
27. Abbreviations 293
28. Notes 295
29. Bibliography 369
30. Index 413