Health without bodies : health claims and scientific evidence on the European Market / Kim Hendrickx.
Hendrickx, Kim, author.
2023
RA483
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Title Health without bodies : health claims and scientific evidence on the European Market / Kim Hendrickx.
Author Hendrickx, Kim, author.
ISBN 9789819949502 (electronic bk.)
9819949505 (electronic bk.)
9789819949496
9819949491
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 179 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2 doi
Call Number RA483
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.1094
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 4, 2023).
Series Health, technology, and society, 2946-3378
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