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The nation's diet : the social science of food choice.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education, 1998.ISBN:
  • 0582302854
  • 9780582302853
Partial contents:
The Nation's Diet Research Programme Steering Committee -- Ch. 1. Food choice, the social sciences and 'The Nation's Diet' Research Programme / Anne Murcott -- Ch. 2. The effects of life stress on food choice / Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle and Zara Lipsey / [et al.] -- Ch. 3. Understanding dietary choice and dietary change: contributions from social psychology / Mark Conner, Rachel Povey and Paul Sparks / [et al.] -- Ch. 4. Changing what children eat / C. Fergus Lowe, Alan Dowey and Pauline Horne -- Ch. 5. Consumer theory and food choice in economics, with an example / Trevor Young, Michael Burton and Richard Dorsett -- Ch. 6. What we eat and why: social norms and systems of provision / Ben Fine, Michael Heasman and Judith Wright -- Ch. 7. How British retailers have shaped food choice / Neil Wrigley -- Ch. 8. A sociological approach to food choice: the case of eating out / Alan Warde and Lydia Martens -- Ch. 9. Regulation, rights and the structuring of food choices / Andrew Flynn, Michelle Harrison and Terry Marsden -- Ch. 10. Studying food choice in its social and cultural contexts: approaches from a social anthropological perspective / Pat Caplan, Anne Keane and Anna Willetts / [et al.] -- Ch. 11. Food choice and diet change within the family setting / Spencer Henson, Susan Gregory and Malcolm Hamilton / [et al.] -- Ch. 12. The 'Marriage Menu': life, food and diet in transition / Debbie Kemmer, Annie S. Anderson and David W. Marshall -- Ch. 13. Ethnographies of eating in an urban primary school / Robert G. Burgess and Marlene Morrison -- Ch. 14. Food choice, food scares, and health: the role of the media / Sally Macintyre, Jacquie Reilly and David Miller / [et al.] -- Ch. 15. Food choices for babies / Elizabeth Murphy, Susan Parker and Christine Phipps -- Ch. 16. Food choice and culture in a cosmopolitan city: South Asians, Italians and other Glaswegians / Rory Williams, Helen Bush and Mike Lean / [et al.] -- Ch. 17. Food choice and the British system of formal and informal welfare provision: questions for research / Diana Leat -- Ch. 18. British market-research data on food: a note on their use for the academic study of food choice / Leslie Gofton -- Ch. 19. The discourse of scientific knowledge of nutrition and dietary change in the twentieth century / David Smith.
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The Nation's Diet Research Programme Steering Committee -- Ch. 1. Food choice, the social sciences and 'The Nation's Diet' Research Programme / Anne Murcott -- Ch. 2. The effects of life stress on food choice / Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle and Zara Lipsey / [et al.] -- Ch. 3. Understanding dietary choice and dietary change: contributions from social psychology / Mark Conner, Rachel Povey and Paul Sparks / [et al.] -- Ch. 4. Changing what children eat / C. Fergus Lowe, Alan Dowey and Pauline Horne -- Ch. 5. Consumer theory and food choice in economics, with an example / Trevor Young, Michael Burton and Richard Dorsett -- Ch. 6. What we eat and why: social norms and systems of provision / Ben Fine, Michael Heasman and Judith Wright -- Ch. 7. How British retailers have shaped food choice / Neil Wrigley -- Ch. 8. A sociological approach to food choice: the case of eating out / Alan Warde and Lydia Martens -- Ch. 9. Regulation, rights and the structuring of food choices / Andrew Flynn, Michelle Harrison and Terry Marsden -- Ch. 10. Studying food choice in its social and cultural contexts: approaches from a social anthropological perspective / Pat Caplan, Anne Keane and Anna Willetts / [et al.] -- Ch. 11. Food choice and diet change within the family setting / Spencer Henson, Susan Gregory and Malcolm Hamilton / [et al.] -- Ch. 12. The 'Marriage Menu': life, food and diet in transition / Debbie Kemmer, Annie S. Anderson and David W. Marshall -- Ch. 13. Ethnographies of eating in an urban primary school / Robert G. Burgess and Marlene Morrison -- Ch. 14. Food choice, food scares, and health: the role of the media / Sally Macintyre, Jacquie Reilly and David Miller / [et al.] -- Ch. 15. Food choices for babies / Elizabeth Murphy, Susan Parker and Christine Phipps -- Ch. 16. Food choice and culture in a cosmopolitan city: South Asians, Italians and other Glaswegians / Rory Williams, Helen Bush and Mike Lean / [et al.] -- Ch. 17. Food choice and the British system of formal and informal welfare provision: questions for research / Diana Leat -- Ch. 18. British market-research data on food: a note on their use for the academic study of food choice / Leslie Gofton -- Ch. 19. The discourse of scientific knowledge of nutrition and dietary change in the twentieth century / David Smith.