Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal /
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Author / Creator: | Roach, Mary. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton, c2013. |
Description: | 348 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9104929 |
Table of Contents:
- Nose job: tasting has little to do with taste
- I'll have the putrescine: your pet is not like you
- Liver and opinions: why we eat what we eat and despise the rest
- The longest meal: can thorough chewing lower the national debt?
- Hard to stomach: the acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin
- Spit gets a polish: someone ought to bottle the stuff
- A bolus of cherries: life at the oral processing lab
- Big gulp: how to survive being swallowed alive
- Dinner's revenge: can the eaten eat back?
- Stuffed: the science of eating yourself to death
- Up theirs: the alimentary canal as criminal accomplice
- Inflammable you: fun with hydrogen and methane
- Dead man's bloat: and other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research
- Smelling a rat: does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?
- Eating backward: is the digestive tract a two-way street?
- I'm all stopped up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation
- The ick factor: we can cure you, but there's just one thing.