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

• Autore: Coveney John
• 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; Disease; Food Preferences; Morals; 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