LEADER 03870nam 22005655 450 001 9910554205703321 005 20220316221050.0 010 $a1-5017-4867-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501748677 035 $a(CKB)4100000010765847 035 $a(OCoLC)1111637322 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81282 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5964981 035 $a(DE-B1597)537534 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501748677 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010765847 100 $a20200526h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn an empty stomach $etwo hundred years of hunger relief /$fTom Scott-Smith 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-5017-4866-1 311 $a1-5017-4865-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger --$t1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine --$t2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science --$t3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions --$t4. Colonialism and Communal Strength --$t5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations --$t6. Military Feeding during World War II --$t7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period --$t8. High Modernism and the Development Decade --$t9. Low Modernism after Biafra --$t10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy --$tConclusion: On an Empty Stomach --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOn an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions. Aid is often presented as an apolitical and technical project, but the way humanitarians conceive and tackle human needs has always been deeply influenced by culture, politics, and society. These influences extend down to the most detailed mechanisms for measuring malnutrition and providing sustenance. As Scott-Smith shows, over the past century, the humanitarian approach to hunger has redefined food as nutrients and hunger as a medical condition. Aid has become more individualized, medicalized, and rationalized, shaped by modernism in bureaucracy, commerce, and food technology. On an Empty Stomach focuses on the gains and losses that result, examining the complex compromises that arise between efficiency of distribution and quality of care. Scott-Smith concludes that humanitarian groups have developed an approach to the empty stomach that is dependent on compact, commercially produced devices and that is often paternalistic and culturally insensitive. 606 $aNutrition$xResearch$xHistory 606 $aEmergency mass feeding$xHistory 606 $aStarvation$xHistory 606 $aHumanitarian assistance$xHistory 606 $aFood relief$xHistory 610 $aHumanitariansim, Hunger, Modernism, International Aid, Food Studies. 615 0$aNutrition$xResearch$xHistory. 615 0$aEmergency mass feeding$xHistory. 615 0$aStarvation$xHistory. 615 0$aHumanitarian assistance$xHistory. 615 0$aFood relief$xHistory. 676 $a363.8/83 700 $aScott-Smith$b Tom$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01218492 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554205703321 996 $aOn an empty stomach$92817854 997 $aUNINA