Building on McDougall's ideas, Cannon (1915) wrote his landmark book, Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage, describing the bodily changes that occurred in the context of emotional excitement.
As with any humor book, bodily functions make their due appearance.
Although you could say the themes of Roth's book – bodily cravings, pushed to their limit – are part of the same spectrum, the other end of it maybe.
After being the motivation for the entire book, the bodily remnant turned out not to be an end in itself but rather just a means to a different end?
This volume offers an interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-awareness, the first book to do so since the landmark 1995 collection The Body and the Self, edited by José Bermúdez, Naomi Eilan, and Anthony Marcel (MIT Press).
When Mary Roach wrote "Packing for Mars," her 2010 book about the bodily experiences of astronauts in space, she seemed especially excited by the feeding, digestive and excremental issues with which NASA had to deal.
(There is a series of Japanese children's books about the bodily functions that children tend to become preoccupied with; the most famous volumes in the series — "Everyone Poops" and "The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts" — got that way because adults buy them as gag presents for other adults. At least, they do in one family I know).
I found this ironic, as I've written a book about sanitation and bodily excreta, and once gave a lecture to a hall full of NHS incontinence nurses.
Even with "Roe" on the books, the promise of bodily autonomy remains out of reach for many women.
Many children's books promote themes of bodily autonomy and safety.
There is a great deal of interest in bodily fluids, excretions and excrement in this book.
