Health Without Bodies Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market

Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine. Food-related health claims are governed in the EU as voluntary statements on food labels to help consumers make ‘informed choices’. This poses an interesting problem: when claims refer to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hendrickx, Kim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Health, Technology and Society
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The contours of a problem
  • Sugar’s Legacy
  • Health benefits looking for a science
  • The Common Market and the Rise of Information
  • Liberal Food, Liberal Consumers
  • Bodies of Evidence
  • Territorial Disputes
  • Health without Bodies