Fear of food
Subtitle: a history of why we worry about what we eat
By: Harvey Levenstein
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780226473741
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Nutrition; Psychological aspects; Food; Food preferences; Phobias; Eating disorders; Diet
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Germophobia; title: Milk: "the most valuable and dangerous food"; title: Autointoxication & its discontents; title: Bacteria & beef; title: "Lucrezia Borgias in the kitchen"; title: Vitamania & its deficiencies; title: "Hidden hunger" stalks the land; title: Natural foods in Shangri-la; title: Lipophobia; title: Creating a national eating disorder.