Food
multidisciplinary perspectives
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Author
Contributions
- Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946- - Contributor
- Hoffenberg, R. - Contributor
Publication
1994 - Blackwell, Oxford, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
60,750 words, Guess
Page Count
243 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1420403M
- ISBN-100631188282
- OCLC Control Number28710683
- Library of Congress Control Number93030500
- Goodreads3361596
Classifications
- DDC363.8
- LCCHD9000.6 .F576 1994
- LCCHD9000.6.F576 1994
Description
In this book an international and multidisciplinary team of leading academics reviews the recent research on food. Current food policies are assessed and their implications for both advanced and underdeveloped societies are discussed. Covers the relationship between diet and disease in conditions of affluence and of scarcity and famine; the symbolic, social and political meaning of food; gender issues; agricultural food production and poverty; industrial food production and the politics and regulation of its distribution; and international nutritional justice and its ethical basis.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Wolfson College lectures ;
- 1992
Other Editions
- Food: multidisciplinary perspectives
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