TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hendrickx,Kim
TI  - Health Without Bodies: Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market 
T2  - Health, Technology and Society,
SN  - 9789819949502
U1  - 303.483 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Science and Technology Studies
KW  - Medical Anthropology
KW  - Medical Sociology
KW  - Health, Medicine and Society
KW  - Political Sociology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4950-2
ER  -