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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

byMary Roach

Mary Roach travels through the human digestive tract with scientists investigating taste, chewing, saliva, stomach acid, gas, microbes, constipation, and the fate of swallowed objects. Historical experiments and modern laboratories reveal bodily processes usually kept outside polite conversation. Roach approaches unusual research with humor while explaining the serious medical and evolutionary questions behind it. The book shows digestion as an active collaboration among organs, chemistry, bacteria, behavior, and culture. By following food from entrance to exit, she turns an embarrassing everyday system into a fascinating landscape of adaptation, curiosity, and scientific ingenuity.

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781324036067