Fatness: Concepts and Perceptions in Western European Medicine c. 1700-1900

Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen

Fatness: Concepts and Perceptions in Western European Medicine c. 1700-1900

Abstract

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.

Original language	English

Publisher	Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
Number of pages	234
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Overvægt

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