1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153165403321

Autore

Bouton Vincent

Titolo

De nez à nez : histoire du nez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : L'Harmattan, 2014

ISBN

2-336-70889-2

Soggetti

Nose

History of Medicine

Nose Diseases

Face

History

Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases

Respiratory Tract Diseases

Sense Organs

Respiratory System

Humanities

Disease

Anatomy

Head

Body Regions

Otorhinolaryngology

Medicine

Human Anatomy & Physiology

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143679703321

Autore

Coveney John

Titolo

Food, Morals and Meaning : The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2006

ISBN

1-000-93897-2

1-134-18449-2

1-280-54930-0

9786610549306

0-415-37621-1

0-203-96735-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

178

Soggetti

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

Disease

Food Preferences

Morals

Diet

Obesity

Health & Biological Sciences

Diet & Clinical Nutrition



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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