Medical anthropologist Chen explores the old and new crossovers between food and medicine in different social and cultural contexts and studies modern day methods that link food to medicine in new ways. She considers these developments against the evolving food regimes of the diet industry in order to build a framework for understanding diet as individual practice, social prescription, and political formation.

Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture (Hardcover)

By Nancy N. Chen

ISBN-13: 9780231134842
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Columbia University Press, 12/2008

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