Product Description: The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve topics covered by this book...read more

Product Description: With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food...read more

Product Description: This book offers the first framing of potential social science approaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topic of food waste.   Shows how the profile of waste has suddenly increased as a topic of sociological relevance and extends these developments to analyses of food Conceptualises waste as a dynamic category and one that plays an important role in processes of cultural and economic organisation Brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives Engages with food waste in a number of contexts and at a variety of scales Explores issues such as the regulation and governance of food systems; the materiality of foodstuffs and associated technologies; the dynamics of social practices and what goes on in domestic kitchens; the ways in which food and waste are circulated in societies; dumpster diving and freeganism, and socio-technical innovations for waste reduction Demonstrates how food waste is a useful lens through which to tend to a number of contemporary issues within sociology and social theory...read more

Product Description: Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in medical sociology. These are also the long-running intellectual preoccupations of Philip M...read more

Product Description: Appropriate as a supplemental text to courses in Sociology. Providing an overview grounded in research. Developments in Sociology focuses on the major areas of theoretical, methodological and substantive developments in sociology...read more

Product Description: 'Why we eat what we eat?' is a key question for the 1990s, posed again and again in government departments, in sectors of the food industry, by professionals in health, in education, and in catering, to name a few. It is the same question adopted as the springboard for the UK Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Research Programme on 'The Nation's Diet' (1992-1998), a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary set of co-ordinated basic research projects across the social sciences, including economics, psychology, social anthropology and sociology, as well as education and media studies...read more

Product Description: In this comprehensive overview of the sociology of food and eating, the authors demonstrate why the subject has emerged as a significant area of sociological research.Drawing on interdisciplinary sources, the authors explore both the empirical questions raised by the relation of food to inequality, scarcity and famine, and the broader theoretical issue of food as a fundamental item of consumption and a cultural symbol...read more

Product Description: Contents: Anne Murcott, introduction; Paul Atkinson, "Eating Virtue"; Julia Twigg, "Vegetarianism and the Meaning of Meat"; Howard Newby, "Living from Hand to Mouth: The Farmworker, Food and Agribusiness"; Eric Batstone, "The Hierarchy of Maintenance and the Maintenance of Hierarchy: Notes on Food and Industry"; Sally Macintyre, "The Management of Food in Pregnancy"; Hilary Homans, "A Question of Balance: Asian and British Women's Perceptions of Food during Pregnancy"; Erica Wheeler and Tan Swee Poh, "Food for Equilibrium: The Dietary Principles and Practice of Chinese Families in London"; Mildred Blaxter and Elizabeth Paterson, "The Goodness Is out of It: The Meaning of Food to Two Generations"; Rory Williams, "The Salt of the Earth: Ideas Linking Diet, Exercise and Virtue among Elderly Aberdonians"; Roisin Pill, "An Apple a Day ...read more