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Hunger an Unnatural History

Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience.

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  • "Analyzes the psychological and physical consequences of food deprivation and semi-starvation, discussing topics ranging from hunger strikes and religious fasts to cannibalism and anorexia nervosa."
  • "Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience."@en
  • "This book explores the range of this primal experience, a biological process that transcends nature to shape the fabric of societies. In a survey of centuries of thought on hunger's unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today.--From publisher description."
  • "Step-by-step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days."

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  • "Hunger an Unnatural History"@en
  • "Hunger : an unnatural history"
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