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Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture / / E. N. Anderson
| Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture / / E. N. Anderson |
| Autore | Anderson E. N (Eugene Newton), , Jr., <1941-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 394.12 |
| Soggetto topico |
Food preferences
Food habits |
| ISBN | 0-8147-8576-X |
| Classificazione | SOC002000SOC026000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyone Eats -- Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round -- 1. Obligatory Omnivores -- 2. Human Nutritional Needs -- 3. More Needs Than One -- 4. The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind -- 5. Basics: Environment and Economy -- 6. Food and Traditional Medicine -- 7. Food as Pleasure -- 8. Food Classification and Communication -- 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker -- 10. Food and Religion -- 11. Change -- 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings -- 13. Feeding the World -- Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789148403321 |
Anderson E. N (Eugene Newton), , Jr., <1941->
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| New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture / / E. N. Anderson
| Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture / / E. N. Anderson |
| Autore | Anderson Eugene Newton, Jr., <1941-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 394.12 |
| Soggetto topico |
Food preferences
Food habits |
| ISBN | 0-8147-8576-X |
| Classificazione | SOC002000SOC026000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyone Eats -- Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round -- 1. Obligatory Omnivores -- 2. Human Nutritional Needs -- 3. More Needs Than One -- 4. The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind -- 5. Basics: Environment and Economy -- 6. Food and Traditional Medicine -- 7. Food as Pleasure -- 8. Food Classification and Communication -- 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker -- 10. Food and Religion -- 11. Change -- 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings -- 13. Feeding the World -- Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826530703321 |
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Anderson Eugene Newton, Jr., <1941->
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| New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia / / Shirley Sun
| Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia / / Shirley Sun |
| Autore | Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1095 |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness |
| Soggetto topico |
Precision medicine - Social aspects - Asia
Precision medicine - Economic aspects - Asia Social medicine - Asia Medical economics - Asia |
| ISBN |
1-134-98919-9
1-315-53717-6 1-134-98912-1 |
| Classificazione | SOC002000SOC026000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Personalized medicine and population-based research and development; What is a population? Race and genetics in North America; Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, and pharmacoethnicity; Why Asia?; Time, space, and the emergent other; Genomics in Asia and the unfolding dynamics of othering; Current research infrastructure and development concerning personalized medicine in Asia; Existing social-science studies of science and medicine performed in Asia; The illuminating question could be, when are you from?
What is at stake when populations are ethnically or racially labeled?Chapter outline; 2 Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context: Asianism, nationalism, and the racialization of ethnicity; Introduction; The fundamental question of, when are you from?; Once upon a time: the unfolding character of the "Japanese" category; Effects of Japanese colonialism and regional integration on the notion of "Japanese"; Resisting being "othered": scientists in Asia define "Asian" genome diversity Ethnicity as a proxy for genetic diversity and the molecularization of ethnicities in AsiaConclusion; 3 Capitalizing on being "othered": precision medicine and race in the context of a globalized pharmaceutical industry; Introduction; Saving IRESSA; The larger significance of the story of IRESSA; Racializing clinical trials as a routine phenomenon; Local transformations; Pharmacogenomics, race, and post-marketing clinical trials; Conclusion; 4 Managing otherness: genomics and public health policy in Singapore; Introduction; Population aggregate data, ethnicity, and post-market drug vigilance Irinotecan and UGT1A1 genotypingCarbamazepine and HLA-B*1502 genotyping; Analysis of the prevailing practices noted above; The historical emergence of "Malay" as a group during the precolonial era; "Malayness" during the colonial era; "Malayness" in the Malay Peninsula in the postcolonial era; The case of the Malay in Singapore; Conclusion; 5 Cancer genomics in clinics; Introduction; Using ethnicity or race as a basis of clinical decision-making; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug efficacy; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug toxicities Personalized medicine in clinical practice: preventive medicineConclusion; 6 Socio-economic factors and ethical dilemmas in personalized medicine provision; Introduction; Genome-based personalized medicine is effective but not curative; moreover, it can be prohibitively expensive; Should the cost of a cancer drug be part of the treatment decisions?; Who should be expected to interpret genetic tests when cancer is a "context-dependent manifestation"?; Privacy concerns and the potential for genetic discrimination at the level of the individual and the group Should genome-based pharmaceuticals be the primary approach to treating cancer? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831882803321 |
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Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li
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| 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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