Food, Health and Identity (Hardcover)

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices. It also looks at the increase of vegetarianism, and the relative ineffectiveness of official eating advice. The book should be useful to students of anthropology, cultural studies and health promotion as well as to those scientists and policymakers who are concerned with food. The introduction seeks to indicate how social scientists can help us understand why people eat what they do. In the following chapters anthropologists and sociologists discuss themes of change and continuities and identity in food and eating in Britain today.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Pat Caplan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-15679-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Dietetics & nutrition Books > Food & Drink > General
LSN:	0-415-15679-3
Barcode:	9780415156790

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