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SOCIOLOGY OF NUTRITION

• Cultural nutrition
• Public health/food security
• Agriculture
• Genetic food engineering
  

  Pick of the crop Sociology of Food From the Australian Sociological Assocation, some web links on this sometimes neglected subject, including some "Size acceptance" sites.

  The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

  This is an on-line collection of electronic full-text versions of historical agricultural and nutrition texts published during the period 1850-1950.

  Some of the ones relevant to nutrition include:

  • Fletcher, Horace (1903) The A. B.-Z. of our own nutritionFull Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Swift, Raymond Walter; French, Cyrus Edwin (1954) Energy metabolism and nutrition [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Beeuwkes, Adelia M.; Todhunter, E. Neige; Weigley, Emma Seifrit.; American Dietetic Association. (1967) Essays on history of nutrition and dietetics [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Lusk, Graham (1914) The fundamental basis of nutrition [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Gilbert, Frank Albert ([c1948] 1949.) Mineral nutrition of plants and animals. [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • McCollum, Elmer Verner (1918) The newer knowledge of nutrition; the use of food for the preservation of vitality and health [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Lusk, Graham (1933) Nutrition [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Bogert, L. Jean (1931) Nutrition and physical fitness [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Chittenden, Russell Henry (1907) The nutrition of man [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Roberts, Lydia J. (1927) Nutrition work with children. [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Mendel, Lafayette B. (1923) Nutrition: the chemistry of life. [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Sherman, Henry C. (1950) The nutritional improvement of life [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Ritzman, Ernest George; Benedict, Francis Gano (1938) Nutritional physiology of the adult ruminant [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Franzen, Raymond Hugh (1929) Physical measures of growth and nutrition [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Russell, Edward J. (1926) Plant nutrition and crop production [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Sahyun, Melville (1948) Proteins and amino acids in nutrition. [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]
  • Mellanby, Edward (1950) A story of nutritional research; the effect of some dietary factors on bones and the nervous system. [Full Text] [Bibliographic record]

  Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society

  "an organization of professionals dedicated to the study of values issues associated with the production, distribution and consumption of food, fiber and natural resources. AFHVS promotes open discussion of such questions as the sustainability of modern food production practices, the benefits and risks of biological technologies, and food security in developed and developing countries."

  Texas A&M University: course in sociology of nutrition

  Brief description from the Department of Rural Sociology.

  BFE/FRCN: Institute for Economy and Sociology of Nutrition

  The German name is: Teilinstitut für Ernährungsökonomie und -soziologie. This university Institute concentrates on "nutrition behaviour and the effectiveness of consumer education programmes". The web site describes the faculty, research projects and publications. The material is mainly in German but there is some information in English.,

  Centre International de l'Enfance et de la Famille (Office of Childhood and the Family)

  A French organistation which states of itself (in French, as the website is in this language) :"a national and international center of expertise and reference on the questions of childhood and the family, in the fields medical and social." Has as a theme the sociology of nutrition. Web site is mainly descriptive, with a few links and some publications.

  Deakin Univ., Social Nutrition

  From an Austtalian university department which runs courses in the subject, this page has information on nutrition education and FAO, a short unannotated biiblography and brief explanation of what this discipline is, but not much more at present, although the home page promises greater contents in the future.

  Social Nutrition course, Deakin University

  Small amount of contextual material on-line.

  Digest: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways

  "Digest represents scholarship from a variety of disciplines--culinary history, nutritional sciences, cultural and nutritional anthropology, sociology, folklore" Web site has TOC for issues 1991-5.

  The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society

  Food related section of an organisation devoted to the study of folklife and folklore. Has a journal entitled Digest: (see entry above)

  Society for Medical Anthropology

  Organisational information

  British Sociological Association

  Has a food sub-group.