{"product_id":"food-morals-and-meaning-john-coveney-9780415376204","title":"Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney 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, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This up-to-date edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a national and international panic about the obesity 'epidemic'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on how our food anxieties have stemmed from social, political and religious problems in Western history, \u003cem\u003eFood, Morals and Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e looks at: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe ancient Greeks' preoccupation with eating \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eearly Christianity and the conflict between the pleasures of the flesh and spirituality \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003escientific developments in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe and our current knowledge of food \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe social organization of food in the modern home, based on real interviews \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe obesity 'epidemic' and its association with moral degeneration. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the work of Michel Foucault, this fresh and updated edition explains how a rationalization food choice - so apparent in current programmes on nutrition and health - can be traced through a genealogy of historical social imperatives and moral panics.\u003cem\u003e Food, Morals\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness and sociology of the body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Coveney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415376203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415376204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"John Coveney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136079868159,"sku":"9780415376204","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fcf063cf-032a-4a9d-8bcc-e223cb1d0162.jpg?v=1770160376","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-morals-and-meaning-john-coveney-9780415376204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}