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The science and culture of nutrition, 1840-1940
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ISBN: 9051838182 9051838190 9004418415 9789051838190 9789051838183 Year: 1995 Volume: 32 Publisher: Brill | Rodopi

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Modern nutrition science is usually considered to have started in the 1840s, a period of great social and political turmoil in western Europe. Yet the relations between the production of scientific knowledge about nutrition and the social and political valuations that have entered into the promotion and application of nutritional research have not yet received systematic historical attention. The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940 for the first time looks at the ways in which scientific theories and investigations of nutrition have made their impact on a range of social practices and ideologies, and how these in turn have shaped the priorities and practices of the science of nutrition. In these reciprocal interactions, nutrition science has affected medical practice, government policy, science funding, and popular thinking. In uniting major scientific and cultural themes, the twelve contributions in this book show how Western society became a nutrition culture.


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Hunger and history : the impact of changing food production and consumption of patterns on society
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ISBN: 0521304385 0521315050 9780521304382 9780521315050 Year: 1985 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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