Book ID: CBB000070195

The science and culture of nutrition, 1840-1940: (1995)

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Kamminga, Harmke (Editor)
Cunningham, Andrew (Editor)


Rodopi


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: viii + 344 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Kamminga, Harmke, Cunningham, Andrew: Introduction: The science and culture of nutrition. Kamminga, Harmke: Nutrition for the people, or the fate of Jacob Moleschott's contest for a humanist science. Finlay, Mark R.: Early marketing of the theory of nutrition: The science and culture of Liebig's extract of meat. Milles, Dietrich: Working capacity and calorie consumption: The history of rational physical economy. Schlich, Thomas: The word of God and the word of science: Nutrition science and the Jewish dietary laws in Germany, 1820-1920. Apple, Rima D.: Science gendered: Nutrition in the United States, 1840-1940. Barnett, L. Margaret: “Every man his own phyisican”: Dietetic fads, 1890-1914. Weatherall, Mark: Bread and newspapers: The making of “a revolution in the science of food”. Teich, Mikuláš: Science and food during the Great War: Britain and Germany. Horrocks, Sally M.: The business of vitamins: Nutrition science and the food industry in inter-war Britain. Salmon, Fernando: “...but the patient remembers the food”: A new diet, a new hospital in 1930s Spain. Smith, David, Nicolson, Malcolm: Nutrition, education, ignorance and income: A 20th-century debate. Weindling, Paul: The role of international organizations in setting nutritional standards in the 1920s and 1930s.


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Authors & Contributors
Zurbrigg, Sheila
Joshua Frens-String
Welk-Joerger, Nicole
Todd Tucker
González Santacruz, María
Elvbakken, Kari Tove
Journals
Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Medical History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of Women's History
Publishers
Routledge India
University of Minnesota Press
University of California Press
UCL Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Duke University Press
Concepts
Nutrition; dietetics
Public health
Food and foods
Hunger
Famines
Agriculture
People
Liebig, Justus von
Keys, Ancel
Galen
Bordehore, José Chabás
Bircher-Benner, Maximilian
Bäck, Carl
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Ancient
Places
United States
British Isles
South Asia
Lesotho
Spain
South Africa
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
University of Minnesota
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