Food is vital for human life, promotes pleasure and prevents disease.
Though biological scientists have studied food and nutrition in depth, few sociologists have focused on them as social problems. By studying food and nutrition issues as social rather than biological problems, we can look at how these issues become recognized as problems, how they develop, and how the process of constructing issues into social problems is associated with other structural and cultural conditions. The 344-page original paperback is intended for scholars or as a text in courses on food, cultural aspects of nutrition, or part of a social problems course.