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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
Nancy Chen
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Description for Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: VFMD; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine--another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast, most traditional medical systems view food as inseparable from medicine and regard medicinal foods as the front line of healing. Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history, Nancy N. Chen locates ... Read more
What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine--another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast, most traditional medical systems view food as inseparable from medicine and regard medicinal foods as the front line of healing. Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history, Nancy N. Chen locates ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134842
SKU
V9780231134842
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About Nancy Chen
Nancy N. Chen is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (on leave) and is now teaching at Scripps College. A medical anthropologist, she also teaches courses on food, gender and health, ethnographic film, China, and Asian Americans.
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