Proteins, Pathologies and Politics print on demand - Dietary Innovation and Disease From the Nineteenth Century

Zusatztext Proteins! Pathologies and Politics is an excellent exploration of the political! social! cultural!philosophical and economic factors that helped shape the development of nutritionalscience. Informationen zum Autor David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006). Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde, UK.This book takes an international look at how food preparation, consumption and societal attitudes changed and came under scrutiny to contextualise the relationship between what we eat and how we are. Zusammenfassung Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link between dietary innovation and health/disease is not a new one. From new fads in foodstuffs, through developments in manufacturing and production processes, to the inclusion of additives and evolving agricultural practices changing diet, changes often promised better health only to become associated with the opposite. With contributors including Peter Scholliers, Francesco Buscemi, Clare Gordon Bettencourt, and Kirsten Gardner, this collection comprises the best scholarship on how we have perceived diet to affect health. The chapters consider: - the politics and economics of dietary change - the historical actors involved in dietary innovation and the responses to it - the extent that our dietary health itself a cultural construct, or even a product of history This is a fascinating and varied study of how our diets have been shaped and influenced by perceptions of health and will be of great value to students of history, food history, nutrition science, politics and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction David Gentilcore, (University of Leicester, UK) and Matthew Smith, (University of Strathclyde, UK) Part One: Responding to Chronic Disease 1. The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet: Cancer in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Agnes Arnold-Forster, (Kings College London, UK) 2. Nutrition, Starvation and Diabetic Diets: A Century of Change in the United States Kirsten Gardner, (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) 3. Allergic to Innovation? Dietary Change and Debate about Food Allergy in the United States Matt Smith, (University of Strathclyde, UK) Part Two: Scientific Discourses 4. Dietary Change and Epidemic Disease: Fame, Fashion and Expediency in the Italian Pellagra Disputes, 1852-1902 David Gentilcore, (University of Leicester, UK) 5. Conceptualizing the Vitamin and Pellagra as an Avitaminosis: A Case-Study Analysis of the Sedimentation Process of Medical Knowledge Lucian Scrob, (The Central European University, Hungary) 6. Food and Diet as Risk: The Role of the Framingham Heart Study Maiko Rafael Spiess, (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) 7. From John Yudkin to Jamie Oliver: A Short but Sweet History on the War Against Sugar Rachel Meach, (University of Strathclyde, UK) Part Three: The Politics of Diet 8. The Popularization of a New Nutritional Concept: The Calorie in Belgium, 1914-1918 Peter Scholliers, (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) 9. Nutritional Reform and Public Feeding in Britain, 1917-1919 Bryce Evans, Liverpool Hope University, UK 10. The Sin of Eating Meat: Fascism, Nazism and the Construction of Sacred Vegetarianism Francesco Buscemi, (Istituto Universitario di Architet...

Product details

• Authors: David Gentilcore
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2018
• EAN: 9781350056862
• ISBN: 978-1-350-05686-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 165 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology