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A simple matter of salt : an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain / Renate Lellep Fernandez.
- Title
- A simple matter of salt : an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain / Renate Lellep Fernandez.
- Author
- Fernandez, Renate Lellep
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 252 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Abstract: This book discusses the social and political obstacles that have impeded the successful dissemination of preventive knowledge for diseases which are easily preventable in the modern world yet still persist. Author uses the high incidence of iodine deficiency disease among mountain villages in Spain as the basis for this study in biocultural anthropology and public health.
- Series Statement
- Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; v. 25
- Uniform Title
- Comparative studies of health systems and medical care no. 25.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-246) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Iodine: An Essential Dietary Element -- Diet and Image in Asturias -- Kinship and Affliction -- Land and Diet -- Narrative Accompaniments of Rural Character and Disrepute -- Advocacy and Opposition: National and International -- Closing the Gap between Therapy and Prevention.
- ISBN
- 0520069102 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^90033972^
- OCLC
- 21228964
- SCSB-10354929
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library