Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / John Coveney.
"Food, Morals and Meaning traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, it explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This second edition inc...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Summary: | "Food, Morals and Meaning traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, it explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This second edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a national and international panic about the obesity 'epidemic'." "Based on the work of Michel Foucault, this original book explains how a rationalisation of food choice - so apparent in current programmes on nutrition and health - can be traced through a genealogy of historical social imperatives and moral panics. Food, Morals and Meaning is essential reading for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness, and sociology of the body."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203025946 0203159632 1134622066 1280332158 9780203025949 9780203159637 9781134622061 9781280332159 |