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Food, Morals and Meaning : The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating - John Coveney

Food, Morals and Meaning

The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

By: John Coveney

Paperback | 11 May 2006 | Edition Number 2

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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."
Focussing on how our food anxieties have stemmed from social, political and religious problems in Western history, "Food Morals and Meaning "looks at:
- the ancient Greeks' preoccupation with eating
- early Christianity and the conflict between the pleasures of the flesh and spirituality
- scientific developments in 18th and 19th Century Europe and our current knowledge of food
- the social organization of food in the modern home, based on real interviews
- the obesity "epidemic" and its association with moral degeneration
Based on the work of Michel Foucault, this original book explains how a rationalization 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.

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