Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

By Nancy N. Chen

Book Overview

What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231134843
• ISBN13: 9780231508919
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.7" x 5.5"