Food, morals and meaning

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"Food, Morals and Meaning traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, it explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This second edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a national and international panic about the obesity 'epidemic'." "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 reading for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness, and sociology of the body."--Jacket.

subjects: Diet,  Food,  Food habits,  Food preferences,  Gastronomy,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects of Food,  Moral and ethical aspects of Food habits,  Moral and ethical aspects of Nutrition,  Morals,  Nutrition,  Obesity,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Food,  Social aspects of Nutrition,  Ethics,  Nutrition, psychological aspects,  Eating (philosophy),  Food, psychological aspects,  Feeding Behavior,  Aspect moral,  Aliments,  Aspect social,  Gastronomie,  Habitudes alimentaires,  Préférences alimentaires,  PHILOSOPHY,  Ethics & Moral Philosophy,  Ernährungsgewohnheit,  Ernährungspsychologie,  Nutritional Physiological Phenomena