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| 1 | The Hunger Artists | 1 |
| We have always been hungry | ||
| Hunger artists | ||
| The portrait of the artist as a hungry young man | ||
| Famine and the gates of grief | ||
| Calorie restriction and fasting for health | ||
| The intimacy of hunger | ||
| 2 | Eighteen Hours | 17 |
| The process of digestion | ||
| Signals of satiety | ||
| Our "second brain" | ||
| Ghrelin and leptin | ||
| The transformation of the world | ||
| Appetite and aversion | ||
| Skipping breakfast | ||
| 3 | Thirty-Six Hours | 27 |
| Gender differences and short-term hunger | ||
| Our savings bank of calories | ||
| A shortage of glucose | ||
| Obesity research | ||
| Genetic disorders of overeating | ||
| Obesity and poverty | ||
| Poverty and hunger | ||
| 4 | Seven Days | 37 |
| Seventy-two hours without food | ||
| The liver | ||
| The magic of ketones, the miracle of ketosis | ||
| Fasting in religion | ||
| Fasting saints and miracle maids | ||
| A renaissance of Christian fasting | ||
| My fast | ||
| The seven-day fast, matching Heaven with Heaven | ||
| 5 | Thirty Days | 53 |
| Tanner's "starvation comedy" | ||
| The first scientific study of a thirty-day fast | ||
| A cure for obesity | ||
| Fasting for health | ||
| A therapeutic fasting center | ||
| Calorie restriction in monkeys and Biospherians | ||
| Hormesis and intermittent fasting | ||
| 6 | The Hunger Strike | 73 |
| Hunger as theatre | ||
| The English suffragettes revive an old tradition | ||
| Mahatma Gandhi | ||
| Ten Irish Republicans | ||
| Medical ethics in a hunger strike | ||
| 7 | The Hunger Disease Studies | 95 |
| The Warsaw Ghetto | ||
| An ambitious research project | ||
| Results of the hunger disease studies | ||
| The first general conference on hunger disease | ||
| Deportations and liquidation | ||
| The fate of the scientists | ||
| 8 | The Minnesota Experiment | 113 |
| Hungry people and the end of World War II | ||
| The use of conscientious objectors in the Minnesota Experiment | ||
| The physical and psychological effects of semi-starvation | ||
| Unexpected problems in refeeding | ||
| Consequences of the experiment | ||
| 9 | The Anthropology of Hunger | 137 |
| Hunger frustration in the Siriono of Bolivia, Gurage of Ethiopia, and Kalauna of Papua New Guinea | ||
| Colin Turnbull and the African Ik, the dissolution of family | ||
| Three social responses to widespread hunger | ||
| Cannibalism | ||
| The largest recorded famine in history | ||
| Hunger and child death in the cane workers of Brazil | ||
| The medicalization of hunger | ||
| 10 | Anorexia Nervosa | 157 |
| Anorexia mirabilis, anorexia nervosa | ||
| The involuntary effects of starvation | ||
| Similarities and differences between anorectics and the Minnesota Experiment volunteers | ||
| Anorexia nervosa as adaptation | ||
| Multiple theories | ||
| 11 | Hungry Children | 169 |
| The Dutch Hunger Winter | ||
| Starvation and fetal development | ||
| Marasmus and kwashiorkor | ||
| The debate over protein and micronutrients | ||
| New ways to refeed malnourished children | ||
| Children as the icon of famine | ||
| How hunger affects cognition and growth | ||
| How to help a hungry child | ||
| 12 | Protocols of Famine | 187 |
| Baidoa, Somalia | ||
| New ways to refeed malnourished adults | ||
| The will to live | ||
| Vonzula, Liberia | ||
| Famine and disease | ||
| Wau, Sudan | ||
| Triage | ||
| Home-based care and therapeutic feeding centers | ||
| Ready-to-eat therapeutic food | ||
| Pilot programs | ||
| 13 | An and To Hunger | 205 |
| Social causes of hunger | ||
| Epiphany | ||
| The United Nations Hunger Task Force and the eight Millennium Development Goals | ||
| The facts of world hunger | ||
| Three strategies to end world hunger | ||
| 14 | The Top of the Mountain | 215 |
| Hunger and Saint Patrick | ||
| Legal and moral uses of fasting in early Ireland | ||
| A walk up Croagh Patrick | ||
| Irish history | ||
| An Gorta Mor of 1845-50 | ||
| Ancient troscad and the power of hunger | ||
| Selected References and Notes | 231 | |
| Acknowledgements | 261 |
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Wayne Troy
reviewed Hunger: An Unnatural History on April 02, 2011
Hunger: An Unnatural History
When I told people I was reading a book about hunger, they kept asking, "Hunger like being hungry? Or hunger like world hunger?" The answer is simply "yes." Russell covers hunger in all its myriad forms, providing a 10,000 foot overview of the subject that nonetheless manages to be astonishingly personal.
I loved the writing best when it was personal, or at least smaller scale. The passages discussing how Russell dealt emotionally with the information she uncovered while researching the book were beautiful, as was the science writing describing in intricate detail how the metabolism shifts when food grows scarce. I also appreciated her examination of the hunger strike as a political tool. I did find myself wishing for more depth, but that's a wish for a different book, not necessarily a flaw with this one.
Notably less successful was the chapter on anthropology, which provided a literature review without offering much in the way of critical analysis. When the studies under discussion are 50-year old Western investigations of African and South American peoples that come down to "these people are weird and primitive," that's . . . kind of unfortunate. The conclusion's rather breezy assertions on how to end world hunger were also less than compelling, and that's speaking as someone who holds similar political positions to Russell; I can't imagine her arguments being convincing to anyone not already in firm agreement.
Recommended, except to those struggling with eating disorders, who may find the book triggering--it certainly left me hyper-aware of my own eating (and lack of eating) while reading.
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