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Food, health, and identity / edited by Pat Caplan.
- Title
- Food, health, and identity / edited by Pat Caplan.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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| Text | Request in advance | GT2853.G7 F66 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 280 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, the contributors consider the ways in which our food habits are changing, and show how social and personal identities - and perceptions of health and risk - influence food choices.
- Subject
- Note
- Papers originally presented at a panel of the British Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference held in 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Approaches to the study of food, health and identity / Pat Caplan -- Family meals--a thing of the past? / Anne Murcott -- Marriages, weddings and their cakes / Simon Charsley -- How British is British food? / Allison James -- Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade / Lynn Harbottle -- 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London / Anna Willetts -- Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city / Lydia Martens and Alan Warde -- 'We never eat like this at home': food on holiday / Janice Williams -- Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice / Anne Keane.
- Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre / Simon Cohn -- Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food / Hannah Bradby -- Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue / Jacquie Reilly and David Miller -- Declining meat: past, present ... and future imperfect? / Nick Fiddes.
- ISBN
- 0415156793 (hbk)
- 0415156807 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^96051909^
- OCLC
- 36051308
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library