Health Without Bodies Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 149.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
23.11.2023
Verlag
Springer SingaporeSeitenzahl
179
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/1.6 cm
Gewicht
383 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-981-9949-49-6
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.
Afterword by Isabelle Stengers.
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