Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / John Coveney.
"Based on the work of Michel Foucault, this original book explains how a rationalisation of food choice - so apparent in current programmes on nutrition and health - can be traced through a genealogy of historical social imperatives and moral panics. Food, Morals and Meaning is essential readin...
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| Language: | English |
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2006.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foucault, discourse, power and the subject
- The governmentality of modern nutrition
- The Greeks to the Christians : from ethics to guilt
- Religion and reason : the emergence of a discourse on nutrition
- Paupers, prisoners and moral panics : refining the meaning of nutrition
- The nutritional policing of families
- Nutrition landscapes in late modernity
- Nutrition homescapes in late modernity
- An ethnography of family food : subjects of food choice
- The governmentality of girth.