| Description |
vii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Clio medica ; v. 32 |
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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands : 1993) ; 32
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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940 / Harmke Kamminga and Andrew Cunningham -- 1. Nutrition for the People, or the Fate of Jacob Moleschott's Contest for a Humanist Science / Harmke Kamminga -- 2. Early Marketing of the Theory of Nutrition: The Science and Culture of Liebig's Extract of Meat / Mark R. Finlay -- 3. Working Capacity and Calorie Consumption: The History of Rational Physical Economy / Dietrich Milles -- 4. The Word of God and the Word of Science: Nutrition Science and the Jewish Dietary Laws in Germany, 1820-1920 / Thomas Schlich -- 5. Science Gendered: Nutrition in the United States, 1840-1940 / Rima D. Apple -- 6. 'Every Man His Own Physician': Dietetic Fads, 1890-1914 / L. Margaret Barnett -- 7. Bread and Newspapers: The Making of 'A Revolution in the Science of Food' / Mark Weatherall -- 8. Science and Food During the Great War: Britain and Germany / Mikulas Teich |
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9. The Business of Vitamins: Nutrition Science and the Food Industry in Inter-war Britain / Sally M. Horrocks -- 10. '... but the Patient Remembers the Food': A New Diet, a New Hospital in 1930s Spain / Fernando Salmon -- 11. Nutrition, Education, Ignorance and Income: A Twentieth-Century Debate / David Smith and Malcolm Nicolson -- 12. The Role of International Organizations in Setting Nutritional Standards in the 1920s and 1930s / Paul Weindling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food habits -- History.
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Nutrition -- History.
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Nutrition -- History
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| Author |
Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.
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Kamminga, Harmke.
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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
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| LC no. |
96158358 |
| ISBN |
9051838182 |
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9051838190 (paperback) |
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