Setting nutritional standards : theory, policies, practices /: theory, policies, practices. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, and Ulrike Thoms.
• Editors: Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F, 1954-; Thoms, Ulrike, 1962-
• Other Names: Setting Standards: The History and Politics of Nutritional Theories and Practices, 1890-1950
• Contents: Nutritional knowledge between the lab and the field : the search for dietary norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Elizabeth Neswald -- How vegetarians, naturopaths, scientists, and physicians unmade the protein standard in modern Germany / Corinna Treitel -- Of carnivores and conquerors : French nutritional debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914 / Deborah Neill -- Setting standards : the soldier's food in Germany, 1850-1960 / Ulrike Thoms -- The quest for a nutritional El Dorado : efforts to demonstrate dietary impacts on resistance to infectious disease in the 1920s and 1930s / David F. Smith -- Not a complete food for man? : the controversy about white versus wholemeal bread in interwar Britain / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska -- Proscribing deception? : the Gould net weight amendment and the origins of mandatory nutrition labeling / Suzanne Junod -- When is a famine not a famine? Gauging Indian hunger in Imperial and Cold War contexts / Nick Cullather.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.802/18; Nutrition -- Standards -- Congresses; Food -- Standards -- Congresses; Nutrition policy -- Congresses; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Food -- Standards; Nutrition policy; Nutrition -- Standards; MEDICAL / History; Food -- standards; Diet -- standards; Nutrition Policy -- history; Nutritional Sciences -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782049197; 1782049193
• Related ISBNs: 9781580465762; 1580465765
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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