Georges Vigarello (translated by C. Jon Delogu) Columbia University Press 296 pp. $29.50 (2013) Corpulence and humanity's shifting perceptions of it feature in this curious 'history of the body'. In Jon Delogu's translation, sociologist Georges Vigarello takes us from the twelfth century, when 'fat reduction' was attempted by cutting the limbs with razors to allow the escape of 'wind', to today's confused and often destructive dynamics of thinness and obesity.
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机译：乔治·维加罗（Georges Vigarello）（C.乔恩·德洛古（C. Jon Delogu）翻译）哥伦比亚大学出版社296页，29.50美元（2013年）在这种好奇的“身体历史”中，肥胖和人类对它的看法不断变化。在乔恩·德洛古（Jon Delogu）的译本中，社会学家乔治·维加雷洛（Georges Vigarello）将我们带离了十二世纪，当时试图通过用剃刀切开四肢以允许“风”逸出来“减少脂肪”，从而发展到如今的稀薄和肥胖的混乱且往往具有破坏性的动态。
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