Hendrickx, Kim. <br/><br/>
Health Without Bodies  Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market /  [electronic resource] : 
by Kim Hendrickx. 
 - 1st ed. 2023. 
 - Singapore :  Springer Nature Singapore :  Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,  2023. 
 - XXIII, 179 p. 7 illus.  online resource. 
 - Health, Technology and Society,  2946-3378 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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 health, one can no longer ignore that consumers have bodies. Asking how these claims have become possible as a new kind of truth-statement on the market, this book reveals the contours of a fundamental tension between what is expected from consumers in a liberal market economy, and how food and the body come to trouble those expectations. In doing so, it illuminates why the difference between food and medicine is such a sensitive issue, and why seemingly trivial health claims have been subject to so much debate and political control. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789819949502 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Social aspects.<br/>Medical anthropology.<br/>Social medicine.<br/>Political sociology.<br/>Science and Technology Studies.<br/>Medical Anthropology.<br/>Medical Sociology.<br/>Health, Medicine and Society.<br/>Political Sociology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.483