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Autore: |
Coveney John
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Titolo: |
Food, Morals and Meaning : The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating
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Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2006 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina: | 178 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Food, morals, and meaning ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-000-93897-2 |
1-134-18449-2 | |
1-280-54930-0 | |
9786610549306 | |
0-415-37621-1 | |
0-203-96735-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910143679703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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