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“A Matter of So Great Importance to My Health”: Alimentary Knowledge in Practice (2012)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 43
Pages: 418--424

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section: “Assimilating Knowledge---Food and Nutrition in Early Modern Physiologies”
Language: English

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Nutrition Food and foods Medicine Metabolism; physiological chemistry Public health Public understanding of medicine 18th century

The early modern period persists in being the neglected era for concerted study of what the editors have called `alimentary knowledge' and its applications. Using the details of a regimen penned by a Sussex school teacher in the middle of the eighteenth century, this short afterword considers how far some of the features of that alimentary knowledge-scape, as debated by the contributors to this volume, penetrated into quotidian practice. The possibilities for other forms of research, which might enrich our mapping of these foodways and their impacts, are briefly discussed in conclusion.

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Article Orland, Barbara; Spary, E. C. (2012) Introduction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 317). unapi

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