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""Simmons's approach to the history of hunger is distinctive in that she insists on holding at the center of the story those with hungry bellies—human and animal—rather than the profiteers and powerholders."" * Science * “Simmons threads this story . . . in a striking way, linking everyone from cat-torturer Thorndike to civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer to prisoners wasting away on garbage non-food in Maryland and Oklahoma penal facilities.” * Society for US Intellectual History * “Simmons’s approach to the history of hunger is distinctive in that she insists on holding at the center of the story those with hungry bellies— human and animal—rather than the profiteers and powerholders.”   * Science and Society *

""Simmons's approach to the history of hunger is distinctive in that she insists on holding at the center of the story those with hungry bellies—human and animal—rather than the profiteers and powerholders."" * Science * “Simmons threads this story . . . in a striking way, linking everyone from cat-torturer Thorndike to civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer to prisoners wasting away on garbage non-food in Maryland and Oklahoma penal facilities.” * Society for US Intellectual History *

""Simmons's approach to the history of hunger is distinctive in that she insists on holding at the center of the story those with hungry bellies—human and animal—rather than the profiteers and powerholders."" * Science *

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Dana Simmons is an historian of science and technology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France.

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