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Print Price: $214.99

Format:
Paperback
432 pp.
illustrations, 170 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190304676

Copyright Year:
2017

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

A Sociology of Food and Nutrition

The Social Appetite, Fourth Edition

John Germov and Lauren Williams

A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite explores the socio-cultural, political, economic and philosophical facts influencing food production, distribution and consumption. This interdisciplinary text encourages students to question, reflect and apply their understanding of health and nutrition. The fourth edition explores current trends in the sociological study of food including alcohol consumption and production, world hunger and food labelling.

Readership : This is a textbook for second year undergraduate through to postgraduate students undertaking a food, health and/or nutrition subject within a sociology context.

Part 1: An Appetiser
1. Exploring the Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition
Part 2: The Food System: Food Politics, Policies and Movements
2. Unsustainable Food Production: Its Social Origins and Alternatives
3. World Hunger: Its Roots and Remedies
4. Food Insecurity in Australian Households: From Charity to Entitlement
5. Politics of Government Dietary Advice: The Influence of Big Food
6. Food Labelling: More than the Provision of Information
Part 3: Food Culture, Consumption and Identity
7. 'Cheaper and More Plentiful than in England': A History of Australian Food
8. Culinary Cultures of Europe: Food, History, Health and Identity
9. Humans, Food and Other Animals
10. Food and Ageing
11. Food and Class
12. A Historical Sociology of Wine
13. The Social Appetite for Alcohol
14. Gender and Food
15. Sociological Analysis of the Stigmatisation of Obesity

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John Germov is Professor of Sociology and Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle. Lauren Williams is Professor and Head of Nutrition and Dietetics at Griffith University.

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Special Features

Explores the sociology of food and nutrition from production to distribution and consumption.
Interdisciplinary approach of the author team- works well for students studying this subject as a part of a health or nutrition unit even though they are not used to this type of subject.
Covers alcohol consumption which is a new part of the field and courses.