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
Autor principal: Biltekoff, Charlotte, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nutrition.
Food habits.
Diet.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
politics.
anthropology.
sociology.
human behavior.
social sciences.
culture note.
Regimes alimentaires.
Moeurs et coutumes.
Politique.
Anthropologie.
Ethnologie.
Sociologie.
Comportement humain.
Habitude.
Sciences sociales.
Culture.
Habitudes alimentaires.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Alimentation > États-Unis.
Nutrition > États-Unis.
Diet
Cultural Characteristics
Politics
Psychiatry and Psychology
Anthropology
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Phenomena and Processes
Anthropology, Cultural
Physiological Phenomena
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Sociology
Behavior
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Habits
Social Sciences
Culture
Investigative Techniques
Feeding Behavior
Diet in disease.
Manners and customs.
Politics, Practical.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Human behavior.
Habit.
Social sciences.
Food habits > United States.
Diet > United States.
Nutrition > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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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