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Barona, Josep L.
From Hunger to Malnutrition
The Political Economy of Scientific Knowledge in Europe, 1918-1960
Series: L'Europe alimentaire / European Food Issues/ Europa alimentaria / L'Europa alimentare - Volume 3
Year of Publication: 2012
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 372 pp.
ISBN 978-90-5201-856-0 pb.
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Weight: 0.520 kg, 1.146 lbs
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Book synopsis
Hunger and nutrition are central to public health, social stability and a balanced economy. A powerful interdisciplinary field has recently emerged among demographers, cultural, economic and science historians around food studies.
This book is a study of the historical interactions between diet, hunger and health in contemporary Europe. The author uses archival sources from the League of Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Health Organisation to show the impact of food shortages on the health of the European population during the first half of the twentieth century. In the context of the international diplomatic reaction and national health and nutritional policies, the book shows how these exceptional circumstances led to new scientific research, the production and circulation of scientific knowledge, and the political role of experts, as a new political economy of scientific knowledge about food and diet was developed during the central decades of the twentieth century.
Contents
Contents: Hunger in Europe - Nutrition and Health: the Political Economy of Scientific Knowledge in the 20th century - The Production of Scientific Knowledge and Social Practices: the International Response - Defining Risks - Food, Famine and Relief in Wartime - The Post-war Food Crisis and the Impairment of Health Conditions - The Global Politics of Food and Hunger. From the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA) to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - World Food Surveys (1946-1960): Economy, Science, and Politics - Joint FAO/WHO Nutrition Committee - Nutrition, Public Health and Education.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Josep L. Barona is Professor of History of Science and Head of the Department of History of Science and Documentation at the Universidad de Valencia. His research deals with international diplomacy and health policies in contemporary Europe and the origins of the science of nutrition and its social and political uses.
Series
European Food Issues. Vol. 3
General Editors: Antonella Campanini, Peter Scholliers and Jean-Pierre Williot