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“professor david gentilcore”

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  • Food and Health in Early Modern Europe

    Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800

    by Professor David Gentilcore ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000

    by Professor David Gentilcore ...
    Italy, like the rest of Europe, owes a lot to the 'Columbian exchange'. As a result of this process, in addition to potatoes, Europe acquired maize, tomatoes and most types of beans. All are basic elements of European diet and cookery today. The international importance of the potato today as the world's most cultivated vegetable highlights its place in the Columbian exchange.While the history of ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Proteins, Pathologies and Politics

    Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Dr Matthew Smith, Professor David Gentilcore ...
    Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Madness:A Brief History

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  • The Vaccine Race

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    by Meredith Wadman ...
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  • Diabetes: The Biography

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  • Food Activism

    Agency, Democracy and Economy

    Edited by Prof Carole Counihan, Valeria Siniscalchi ...
    Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food.Who are the actors of food activism and what ... Read more

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  • Another Person’s Poison

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  • The Private Life Of Florence Nightingale

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