Eating Right in America The Cultural Politics of Food and Health.

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This work is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Here the author analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biltekoff, Charlotte, 1970-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Food habits > United States.
Diet > United States.
Nutrition > United States.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Alimentation > États-Unis.
Nutrition > États-Unis.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition
Diet
Food habits
Nutrition
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The cultural politics of dietary health
  • Scientific moralization and the beginning of modern dietary reform
  • Anxiety and aspiration on the nutrition front
  • From microscopes to "macroscopes"
  • Thinness as health, self-control, and citizenship
  • Connecting the dots : dietary reform past, present, and future.

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