Food, morals, and meaning
Subtitle: the pleasure and anxiety of eating
By: John Coveney.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Nutrition -- Moral and ethical aspects; Food -- Moral and ethical aspects; Nutrition -- Social aspects; Food -- Social aspects; Gastronomy; Food habits -- Moral and ethical aspects; Food preferences; Food Preferences; Diet; Food Habits; Morals; Nutrition; Obesity
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foucault, discourse, power, and the subject; title: Governmentality of modern nutrition; title: Greeks to the Christians: from ethics to guilt; title: Religion and reason: the emergence of a discourse on nutrition; title: Paupers, prisoners, and moral panics; title: The nutritional policing of families; title: Nutrition landscapes; title: Nutrition homescapes; title: An ethnography of family food: subjects of food choice; title: The governmentality of girth.