| Description |
xv, 258 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 14 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 14
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: [FMH]Contents -- In(tro)duction: Setting the Table 000 -- Part 1: Protein -- (Personal Choice and Action) 000 -- 1. Cutting the Conceptual Carbs: Dewey as Dietician, Atkins as Pragmatist -- Randall E. Auxier 000 -- 2. Nietzsche and the Art of Eating: A Sound Mind in an Atkins Body -- William Irwin 000 -- 3. How Do You Decide What to Eat? Kantian Reflections on Low-Carb Dieting -- Dan Dennis 000 -- Part 2: Fat -- (Pre-Atkins) 000 -- 4. "The Food Nature Intended You to Eat": Low-Carbohydrate Diets and Primitivist -- Philosophy -- Christine Knight 000 -- 5. Brillat-Savarin's Nineteenth-Century Proto-Atkins Diet: A Case Study in Inductive -- Inference -- Daniel O'Connell 000 -- 6. Atkins: Who Gets Philosophical Credit? An Imaginary Dialogue -- Raymond D. Boisvert 000 -- Part 3: Carbohydrates -- (Philosophy of Science) 000 -- 7. Why and When Should We Rely on Scientific Experts? The Atkins Diet as an -- Alternative Theory -- David Ramsay Steele 000 -- 8. The Nietzsche Diet and Dr. Atkins's Science -- Rebecca Bamford 000 -- 9. The Structure of Atkins's New Diet Revolution: Proposing a Paradigm Shift in -- Fighting Obesity -- Catherine A. Womack 000 -- Part 4: Vitamins And Minerals -- (Socio-political and Ethical Considerations) 000 -- 10. Commodious Diets, or Could a Marxist Do Atkins? -- Bat-Ami Bar On 000 -- 11. Bias and Body Size: The Social Contract and the Fat Liberation Movement -- Abby Wilkerson 000 -- 12. A Vegetarian's Beef with Atkins -- David Detmer 000 -- 13. Warning-This Diet Is Not for Everyone: The Atkins Diet's Ecological Side Effects -- STAN COX and MARTY BENDER 000 -- Part 5: Unlimited Noncaloric Beverages -- (Cultural Intersections) 000 -- 14. Men on Atkins: Dieting, Meat, and Masculinity -- Amy Bentley 000 -- 15. Low-Carb Dieting and the Mirror: A Lacanian Analysis of the Atkins Diet -- Fabio Parasecoli 000 -- 16. Tyranny of the Carbohydrate: Feminist Dietary Drama -- Corrinne Bedecarre 000 -- The Low-Carb Canon 000 -- Philosophy and Food: Some Gleanings 000 -- Dietary Preferences of Contributors 000 -- Glycemic Index 000 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Reducing diets -- Philosophy.
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Low-carbohydrate diet -- Philosophy.
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Reducing diets.
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Diet, Carbohydrate-Restricted.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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| Author |
Heldke, Lisa M. (Lisa Maree), 1960-
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Mommer, Kerri, 1958-
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Pineo, Cynthia, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2005018931 |
| ISBN |
0812695844 paperback |
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