Book ID: CBB604486246

Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices (2017)

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Neswald, Elizabeth (Author)
Smith, David F. (Author)
Thoms, Ulrike (Author)


University of Rochester Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 240 pages
Language: English

In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and needs of variable human bodies, setting standards for bodies and foods that would enable physicians and politicians to develop nutritional recommendations and food policies for individuals and populations. Setting Nutritional Standards brings together authors from a variety of disciplines to explore perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of modern nutrition science from the 1860s to the 1960s. The essays place the new science of nutrition within the changing social landscapes of Western Europe and the United States at the intersection of medicine, policy, social reform agendas, and public health initiatives. CONTRIBUTORS: Nick Cullather, Suzanne Junod, Deborah Neill, Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms,Corinna Treitel, Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska Elizabeth Neswald is associate professor for the history of science and technology at Brock University, Canada. David F. Smith is Honorary SeniorLecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Ulrike Thoms is a historian of science and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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Authors & Contributors
Scott-Smith, Tom
Haushofer, Lisa
Laas, Molly S.
Whysner, John
Welk-Joerger, Nicole
Frohlich, Xaq Zachary
Concepts
Public health
Science and society
Nutrition
Food and foods
Nutrition; dietetics
Food industry and trade
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Sweden
Catalonia (Spain)
Spain
North America
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
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