TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Hendrickx, Kim,
CN  - RA483
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2
DO  - doi
ID  - 1484503
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - Nutraceutiques.
KW  - Public health
KW  - Functional foods.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9789819949502
SN  - 9819949505
T1  - Health without bodies :health claims and scientific evidence on the European Market /
TI  - Health without bodies :health claims and scientific evidence on the European Market /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2
ER  -