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Food, Morals and Meaning - The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Food, Morals and Meaning - The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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"Food, Morals and Meaning "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, it explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us
feel anxious. This second edition includes an examination of how
our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a
national and international panic about the obesity
"epidemic."
Focussing on how our food anxieties have stemmed from social,
political and religious problems in Western history, "Food Morals
and Meaning "looks at:
- the ancient Greeks' preoccupation with eating
- early Christianity and the conflict between the pleasures of the
flesh and spirituality
- scientific developments in 18th and 19th Century Europe and our
current knowledge of food
- the social organization of food in the modern home, based on real
interviews
- the obesity "epidemic" and its association with moral
degeneration
Based on the work of Michel Foucault, this original book explains
how a rationalization food choice - so apparent in current
programmes on nutrition and health - can be traced through a
genealogy of historical social imperatives and moral panics. Food,
Morals and Meaning is essential reading for those studying
nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness and
sociology of the body.
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