Health Without Bodies
Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market
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.
| Autor: | Hendrickx, Kim |
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| ISBN: | 9789819949496 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 179 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Singapore |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.11.2023 |
| Untertitel: | Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market |
| Schlagworte: | Anthropology of Markets EU Regulation Health Sociology Health claim Material Politics STS Technological Governance evidence-base lobbying nutrition |
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