Palgrave Macmillan
Health Without Bodies : Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market
Product Code:
9789819949496
ISBN13:
9789819949496
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$127.25
Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine. Food-related health claims are governed in the EU as voluntary statements on food labels to help consumers make ?informed choices?. This poses an interesting problem: when claims refer to health, one can no longer ignore that consumers have bodies. Asking how these claims have become possible as a new kind of truth-statement on the market, this book reveals the contours of a fundamental tension between what is expected from consumers in a liberal market economy, and how food and the body come to trouble those expectations. In doing so, it illuminates why the difference between food and medicine is such a sensitive issue, and why seemingly trivial health claims have been subject to so much debate and political control.
| Author: Kim Hendrickx |
| Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication Date: Nov 23, 2023 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 9819949491 |
| ISBN-13: 9789819949496 |
Health Without Bodies : Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market
$127.25
Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine. Food-related health claims are governed in the EU as voluntary statements on food labels to help consumers make ?informed choices?. This poses an interesting problem: when claims refer to health, one can no longer ignore that consumers have bodies. Asking how these claims have become possible as a new kind of truth-statement on the market, this book reveals the contours of a fundamental tension between what is expected from consumers in a liberal market economy, and how food and the body come to trouble those expectations. In doing so, it illuminates why the difference between food and medicine is such a sensitive issue, and why seemingly trivial health claims have been subject to so much debate and political control.
| Author: Kim Hendrickx |
| Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication Date: Nov 23, 2023 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 9819949491 |
| ISBN-13: 9789819949496 |
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