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Autore |
Coveney John |
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Titolo |
Food, Morals and Meaning [[electronic resource] ] : The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-000-93897-2 |
1-134-18449-2 |
1-280-54930-0 |
9786610549306 |
0-415-37621-1 |
0-203-96735-6 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Food |
Food habits |
Nutrition - Moral and ethical aspects |
Food - Moral and ethical aspects |
Nutrition - Social aspects |
Food - Social aspects |
Gastronomy - Moral and ethical aspects |
Food preferences |
Feeding Behavior |
Investigative Techniques |
Overnutrition |
Psychology, Social |
Behavior |
Nutrition Disorders |
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms |
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
Diseases |
Food Preferences |
Morals |
Food Habits |
Diet |
Obesity |
Health & Biological Sciences |
Diet & Clinical Nutrition |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1 Foucault, discourse, power and the subject; 2 The governmentality of modern nutrition; 3 The Greeks to the Christians: From ethics to guilt; 4 Religion and reason: The emergence of a discourse on nutrition; 5 Paupers, prisoners and moral panics: Refining the meaning of nutrition; 6 The nutritional policing of families; 7 Nutrition landscapes in late modernity; 8 Nutrition homescapes in late modernity; 9 An ethnography of family food: Subjects of food choice; 10 The governmentality of girth |
11 ConclusionsAppendix; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney 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, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This up-to-date edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a national and international panic about the obesity 'epidemic'.Focusing on how our food anxieties have stemmed from social, political and religious problems i |
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