@article{351908,
      recid = {351908},
      author = {Butterly, John R. and Shepherd, Jack,},
      title = {Hunger the biology and politics of starvation /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Dartmouth College Press :},
      address = {Hanover, N.H. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 337 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the  United Nations in 1948, recognizes the individual's right  "to a standard of living adequate for the health and  wellbeing of himself and his family, including food,  clothing, housing, and medical care." More than sixty years  later, despite the rapid advancement of science and  technology and the proliferation of humanitarian efforts,  inadequate nutrition remains a major health and social  problem worldwide. Food insecurity, chronic malnutrition,  persistent hunger, even starvation, still afflicts more  than one in seven of the world's people. As utterly and  Shepherd show, hunger is not the result of inadequate  resources and technologies; rather, its cause is a lack of  political will to ensure that all people have access to the  food to which they are entitled, food distributed safely,  fairly, and equitably. Using a cross-disciplinary approach  rooted in both medicine and social science to address this  crucial issue, the authors provide in-depth coverage of the  biology of human nutrition; malnutrition and associated  health-related factors; political theories of inadequate  nutrition and famine; historical-political behaviors that  have led to famine in the past; and the current political  behaviors that cause hunger and malnutrition to remain a  major health problem today. --Book Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351908},
}