Healthcare and Food - Epistemology, Ethics and Law

This book draws critical connections between food, health, and the environment, redefining our understanding of nutrition as a dynamic interface that shapes human well-being. As the need for a holistic approach to "food health", ie. the relationship between well-being and nutrition, is increasingly becoming more pressing, this volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions that advocate for a new ethical and legal framework that prioritises integral well-being for individuals and communities.

List of contents

Introduction.- Section: 1. Epistemology and Sciences.- Section: 2. Ethics and communication.- Section: 3. Law.

About the author

Francesco Bruno
is an attorney qualified for the Higher Courts and Full Professor at the Campus Bio-medical University of Rome (UCBM), Italy.

Marta Bertolaso
is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science and Human Development at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy.

Adriano Fabris
is full professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he also teaches Ethics of Communication. At the same University he is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Communication.

Summary

This book draws critical connections between food, health, and the environment, redefining our understanding of nutrition as a dynamic interface that shapes human well-being. As the need for a holistic approach to "food health", ie. the relationship between well-being and nutrition, is increasingly becoming more pressing, this volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions that advocate for a new ethical and legal framework that prioritises integral well-being for individuals and communities.

Product details

• Assisted by: Marta Bertolaso (Editor), Francesco Bruno (Editor), Adriano Fabris (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.05.2026
• EAN: 9789819558988
• ISBN: 978-981-9558-98-8
• Illustrations: Approx. 190 p. 5 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Nachhaltigkeit, Soziologie, Sustainability, Diätetik und Ernährung, Gesundheitssystem und Gesundheitswesen, Nutrition, Kulturwissenschaften: Gesellschaft und Kulinarisches, Health Policy, Complex systems, Food law, Health, Medicine and Society, Cultured Meat, One Health, Food Ethics, Sociology of Food and Nutrition, Environmental Sustainability, food advertising, biopolitics of nutrition, health and food