Main description:

This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework of ideas established in medicine related to gastric illness often reflected wider social issues including industrialization and the impact of wartime anxiety upon the inner body.

Contents:

Introduction: History and the Stomach; Chapter 1 The National Stomach: Indigestion and Nineteenth-Century British Society: An Overview; Chapter 2 The Ulcerated Stomach: Gastric Diagnosis and the Reorganization of Medical Knowledge, C. 1800-60; Chapter 3 The Laboratory Stomach: Gastric Analysis in an Era of Vivisection and Force-Feeding Controversies, C. 1870-1920; Chapter 4 The Surgical Stomach: Berkeley Moynihan's Forgotten Surgical Revolution and Duodenal Ulcer Disease, C. 1880-1920; Chapter 5 The Psychosomatic Stomach: British Society, Wartime Dyspepsia and the Return of the Patient, C. 1920-45; Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks;