Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body

This is a contemporary and relevant collection of articles which is particularly relevant in today's body‐obsessed culture. There is something for all interests here: diets, blood, buttocks, plastic surgery, cosmetics, and the heart are among some of the areas explored in social, cultural, geographical and moral terms.

The Encyclopedia is in two volumes. The first begins with an explanation about the scope and organization of the material and differentiations between biological, medical and cultural and what kind of information will be found in this work. Pitts‐Taylor talks about the natural body versus the socially constructed body, the way that the...