Setting nutritional standards: theory, policies, practices

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Title Statements

Full title :Setting nutritional standards : theory, policies, practices / edited by Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, and Ulrike Thoms.

Summary

"In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and needs of variable human bodies, setting standards for bodies and foods that would enable physicians and politicians to develop nutritional recommendations and food policies for individuals and populations. Setting Nutritional Standards brings together authors from a variety of disciplines to explore perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of modern nutrition science from the 1860s to the 1960s. The essays place the new science of nutrition within the changing social landscapes of Western Europe and the United States at the intersection of medicine, policy, social reform agendas, and public health initiatives."--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Rochester Press
Place of Publication:Rochester, NY, USA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

Notes

The essays in this volume emerged from the symposium Setting Standards: The History and Politics of Nutritional Theories and Practices, 1890-1950, held in 2010 at Brock University in Ontario.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 230 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781580465762, 1580465765
oclc:ocn956688607
LC Classification:QP141
Dewey Decimal:363.802/18

Introduction / Elizabeth Neswald and David F. Smith in collaboration with Ulrike Thoms -- Nutritional knowledge between the lab and the field : the search for dietary norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Elizabeth Neswald -- How vegetarians, naturopaths, scientists, and physicians unmade the protein standard in modern Germany / Corinna Treitel -- Of carnivores and conquerors : French nutritional debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914 / Deborah Neill -- Setting standards : the soldier's food in Germany, 1850-1960 / Ulrike Thoms -- The quest for a nutritional El Dorado : efforts to demonstrate dietary impacts on resistance to infectious disease in the 1920s and 1930s / David F. Smith -- "Not a complete food for man" : the controversy about white versus wholemeal bread in interwar Britain / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska -- "Proscribing deception" : the Gould net weight amendment and the origins of mandatory nutrition labeling / Suzanne Junod -- When is a famine not a famine? : gauging Indian hunger in Imperial and Cold War contexts / Nick Cullather.

Subjects

44.01 history of medicine Actes de congrès Aliments -- Congrès. -- Normes Conference papers and proceedings Congress Diet -- standards Empfehlungen für die Nährstoffzufuhr Ernährungswissenschaft Food -- Congresses. -- Standards Food -- standards History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Nährstoff Nutrition -- Congrès. -- Normes Nutrition -- Congresses. -- Standards Nutrition -- Standards Nutrition Policy Nutrition policy -- Congresses