A Medicine and Literature event

Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media’s obsession with weight is perceived as a recent phenomenon but, as historian Dr Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what, when, and how we eat ever since the Greeks first pinched an inch. In what promises to be a surprising and sometimes shocking talk, Foxcroft exposes the anxieties, fashions and 'anti-fat cures' that have driven an expanding dieting industry, and reveals the extreme and often dangerously absurd lengths people have gone to in order to slim down.

Speaker: Dr Louise Foxcroft, Historian, writer and broadcaster.

This event is FREE. 

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