{"product_id":"proteins-pathologies-and-politics-david-gentilcore-9781350056862","title":"Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003ci\u003eProteins, Pathologies and Politics \u003c\/i\u003epresents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link between dietary innovation and health\/disease is not a new one. From new fads in foodstuffs, through developments in manufacturing and production processes, to the inclusion of additives and evolving agricultural practices changing diet, changes often promised better health only to become associated with the opposite.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With contributors including Peter Scholliers, Francesco Buscemi, Clare Gordon Bettencourt, and Kirsten Gardner, this collection comprises the best scholarship on how we have perceived diet to affect health. The chapters consider: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - the politics and economics of dietary change\u003cbr\u003e - the historical actors involved in dietary innovation and the responses to it\u003cbr\u003e - the extent that our dietary health itself a cultural construct, or even a product of history? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a fascinating and varied study of how our diets have been shaped and influenced by perceptions of health and will be of great value to students of history, food history, nutrition science, politics and sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Gentilcore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350056863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350056862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019","brand":"David Gentilcore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425195573503,"sku":"9781350056862","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b838c4e9-f5e5-487a-9201-aca7c6eb16b9.jpg?v=1761537667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proteins-pathologies-and-politics-david-gentilcore-9781350056862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}