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Nourrir la machine humaine : Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945

1 Apr 2015

Nutrition advice is ubiquitous. So many experts give their opinion on which foods to favour and which to avoid that the question of diet has now become a matter of obsession. While alerting the public to the dangers of obesity, diabetes, and other potential issues that await undisciplined eaters, health professionals and government agencies also identify those responsible for these modern epidemics: it is often individuals - and usually mothers - who make poor choices. In Nourrir la machine humaine, Caroline Durand traces the origins of this rhetoric and shows how nutrition has contributed to the modernization of Quebec in a period marked by industrialization, urbanization, two world wars, and a major economic crash. She analyzes the writings, and images disseminated by physicians, nurses, nutritionists, nuns, teachers, and civil servants and shows how the rational diet they promulgated made women, children, farmers, and workers responsible for their own health while enjoining them to view their body as a machine of Production in service to the state and the market. She also discusses the evolution of Quebec dietary habits and reveals that, despite the nutritional directives in place, the population maintained its preferences and mostly adopted the foods that it judged affordable and desirable. Nourrir la machine humaine questions the pertinence of nutritional advice within Quebec society and proposes explanations of its ideological and scientific roots, its effectiveness, and the resistance it engenders.
diet habitudes alimentaires food habits politique alimentaire cookery history histoire nutrition policy social aspects alimentation nutritional anthropology anthropologie de l'alimentation aspect social qu�bec (province) food & drink etc

Authors

Caroline Durand

Bibliography, etc. Note
Comprend des références bibliographiques (pages 249-294) et un index
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CaOOCEL
Date published
2015.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
363.809714
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
General Note
Publié dans le cadre de la desLibris la collection des documents électroniques canadiens
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-qu
ISBN
9780773597150 9780773544888
LCCN
TX360.C32
LCCN Item number
Q8 2015eb
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CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 texte électronique (xviiii, 301 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
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CaOOCEL
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L'accès est limité aux utilisateurs et aux établissements autorisés
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(CaBNVSL)kck00235731 (OCoLC)896787105 (CaOOCEL)449590
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Mode d'accès: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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