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  • Food

    by John Coveney ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    In Food, John Coveney examines ‘food as … ’ identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Food, Morals and Meaning

    The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

    by John Coveney ...
    First published in 2006. Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to better understand who we are. The book begins by exploring the way that concerns about food, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Food Democracy

    From consumer to food citizen

    by Sue Booth, John Coveney ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical ‘how-to’ approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Food, Morals and Meaning

    The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

    by John Coveney ...
    Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This up-to-date edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Handbook of Food Crime

    Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

    by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...
    Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Critical Dietetics and Critical Nutrition Studies

    Edited by John Coveney, Sue Booth ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This second volume in the Food Policy series focuses on critical nutrition and dietetics studies, offering an innovative and interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of the food supply and the actors in it through a new critical lens.The volume provides an overview of the growth of critical nutrition and dietetics since its inception in 2009, as well as commentary on its continuing ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Food Poverty and Insecurity: International Food Inequalities

    Edited by Martin Caraher, John Coveney ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over consumption. Even in the developed world, nation states are facing the rise of modern malnutrition which is over consumption, but also the re ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Food

    Second Edition

    by John Coveney ...
    Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    In Food, John Coveney examines "food as . . . " identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure, and political power, food is and has been an enduring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society

    Integrating health, environment and society

    by Tim Lang, David Barling, Martin Caraher ...
    For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Ecological Public Health

    Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

    by Geof Rayner, Tim Lang ...
    What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sustainable Diets

    How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System

    by Pamela Mason, Tim Lang ...
    How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Geographies of Food

    An Introduction

    by Moya Kneafsey, Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, Professor Michael K. Goodman ...
    What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays ... Read more

    $36.49 USD