Setting Nutritional Standards - Theory, Policies, Practices

Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s.

List of contents

Introduction
Nutritional Knowledge between the Lab and the Field: The Search for Dietary Norms in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
How Vegetarians, Naturopaths, Scientists, and Physicians Unmade the Protein Standard in Modern Germany
Of Carnivores and Conquerors: French Nutritional Debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914
Setting Standards: The Soldier's Food in Germany, 1850-1960
The Quest for a Nutritional El Dorado: Efforts to Demonstrate Dietary Impacts on Resistance to Infectious Disease in the 1920s and 1930s
"Not a Complete Food for Man": The Controversy about White versus Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain
"Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling
When Is a Famine Not a Famine? Gauging Indian Hunger in Imperial and Cold War Contexts
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms

Summary

Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Neswald (Editor), Elizabeth (Customer) Neswald (Editor), David F. Smith (Editor), Ulrike Thoms (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781580465762
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-576-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 160 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Illustrations: 11 b/w illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H; Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research