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A Questionable History of Appetite and Desire The day Jessica Hamel-Acree discovered the thoughts of George Chain—an 18th-century polymath and London socialite known as "Doctor Diet"—it sparked an intellectual obsession, a decade-long study of women's appetite, and a personal collapse. In this bold and controversial book, Hamill-Acree traces Chain's journey through the pages of medical monographs, novels, and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, emaciated society girls, fasting poor women, and pioneering feminist philosophers, all of whom were once struggling with emerging ideas about food, longing, and the body. In doing so, she reveals the origins of contemporary diet culture in the eighteenth century and its troubled relationship with desire. Blending history and memoir, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality, and repression, and show how they are all intertwined with what we eat. “A bold, beautifully written exploration of a momentous topic” - The Herald Katherine May is “brilliant” “These books...deepen our understanding of how our bodies are ourselves, and how we can live...” - New Statesman “Great, poetic, bold writing” - Charlotte Fox Weber . “Her passion for her subject overflows in her writing; The conclusions it reaches are disturbing and thought-provoking.” - _The Telegraph._