@article{1484503, recid = {1484503}, author = {Hendrickx, Kim,}, title = {Health without bodies : health claims and scientific evidence on the European Market /}, pages = {1 online resource (xxiii, 179 pages) :}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484503}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2}, }