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Eating Right in America : The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biltekoff, Charlotte.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet--United States.
- Food habits--United States.
- Nutrition--United States.
- Nutrition.
- Diet.
- Food habits.
- Feeding Behavior.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Culture.
- Social Sciences.
- Habits.
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
- Behavior.
- Sociology.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Phenomena and Processes.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Anthropology.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Politics.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Feeding Behavior.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Culture.
- Social Sciences.
- Habits.
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
- Behavior.
- Sociology.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Phenomena and Processes.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Anthropology.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Politics.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Diet.
- Local Subjects:
- Diet--United States.
- Food habits--United States.
- Nutrition--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This social and cultural history of key moments in U.S. dietary reform illuminates the relations between prevailing notions of what it means to ""eat right"" and conceptions of morality and citizenship.
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Chapter One. The Cultural Politics of Dietary Health; Chapter Two. Scientific Moralization and the Beginning of Modern Dietary Reform; Chapter Three. Anxiety and Aspiration on the Nutrition Front; Chapter Four. From Microscopes to ""Macroscopes""; Chapter Five. Thinness as Health, Self-Control, and Citizenship; Chapter Six. Connecting the Dots: Dietary Reform Past, Present, and Future; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-7727-6
- OCLC:
- 858024754
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