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1. Diets and Dieting

   A Cultural Encyclopedia

   By Sander L. Gilman

   Diets and dieting have concerned—and sometimes obsessed—human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony...

   Published May 19th 2009 by Routledge
2. Race in Contemporary Medicine

   Edited by Sander L. Gilman

   With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older category of race has been renewed. What role should “race” play...

   Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge