Bibliograph

Gulp, adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach

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Gulp, adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gulp

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

892059962

Responsibility statement

Mary Roach

Sub title

adventures on the alimentary canal

Summary

The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, hilarious intersection of delight and disgust that is digestion

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste; 2 I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you; 3 Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest; 4 The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt?; 5 Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St Martin; 6 Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff; 7 A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab; 8 Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive9 Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back?10 Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death; 11 Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice; 12 Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane; 13 Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research; 14 Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?; 15 Eating Backwards: Is the digestive tract a two-way street?; 16 I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation17 The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thingAcknowledgements; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; About the Author

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