Louise Foxcroft

Louise Foxcroft has a PhD in the history of medicine from the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book, Hot Flushes, Cold Science was the winner of the Longman-History Today Prize, 2009. She writes for the Guardian and the London Review of Books and is a Non-Alcoholic Trustee on the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, working on AA literature and archive materials. She writes for the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

Calories and Corsets : A History of Dieting Over Two Thousand Years Louise Foxcroft There is nothing new under the sun – especially on the subject of diets. The latest diet craze is just part of an endless recycling of past fads, the gizmos, machines, the pills – all make a regular appearance to... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012 Lovereading Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)