Mary Roach: Gulp | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781324036067 | Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal | Mary Roach | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of-or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists-who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.

Like all of Roach's books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

Über den Autor

Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Oakland, California.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Therapie
Genre:	Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781324036067
ISBN-10:	1324036060
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Roach, Mary
Hersteller:	W. W. Norton & Company
Maße:	205 x 137 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Mary Roach
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,42 kg

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