Nutrition In Britain: Science, Scientists And Politics In The Twentieth Century

by David Smith

2021-01-08 15:40:26

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritiona... Read more
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The topics covered include: the chewing cult of Horace Fletcher, dietetic education, the popularization of milk, the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, and wartime involvement in policy making.
The selection of essays inNutrition in Britainprovide valuable new insights into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition. This book will be fascinating reading to historians of science or medicine, as well as to medical sociologists, nutritionists, home economists, health educators, food activists and anyone with a professional or general interest in food and nutrition. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0 in
Print pages288
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date December 3, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781138868199
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J. David Smith, EdD, Professor of Education and Human Development at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, is the author of Minds Made Feeble, The Other Voices: Profiles of Women in the History of...

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