A Modern History of the Stomach

Ian Miller

Introduction: History and the Stomach; Chapter 1 The National Stomach: Indigestion and Nineteenth-Century British Society: An Overview; Chapter 2 The Ulcerated Stomach: Gastric Diagnosis and the Reorganization of Medical Knowledge, C. 1800–60; Chapter 3 The Laboratory Stomach: Gastric Analysis in an Era of Vivisection and Force-Feeding Controversies, C. 1870–1920; Chapter 4 The Surgical Stomach: Berkeley Moynihan’s Forgotten Surgical Revolution and Duodenal Ulcer Disease, C. 1880–1920; Chapter 5 The Psychosomatic Stomach: British Society, Wartime Dyspepsia and the Return of the Patient, C. 1920–45; Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks;