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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Fat is a Manifest Tissue

Steven Shapin

  • Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne by Anita Guerrini

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Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. His new book, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, was published in October.

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