On Hunger : Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
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| Autore: |
Simmons Dana
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| Titolo: |
On Hunger : Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2025 |
| ©2025 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 363.85610973 |
| Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / United States / General |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Subvention -- Epigraphs -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Starving Process -- 2. Punishment and Reward -- 3. Fight-Don't Starve -- 4. Food Aid and the Starved Personality -- 5. Craving and Control -- 6. Weapon of White Supremacy -- 7. Carceral Hunger -- 8. Ozempic -- Conclusion: They Were Hungry -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology--a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On Hunger |
| ISBN: | 9780520412996 |
| 0520412990 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996657770703316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
California Studies in Food and Culture Series