Health Without Bodies: Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market

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Kim Hendrickx

Health Without Bodies

Health Claims and Scientific Evidence on the European Market

Kim Hendrickx

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Springer Verlag, Singapore
23 November 2023

Society & culture: general; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Medical sociology; Medical anthropology

Series: Health, Technology and Society

Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine. Food-related health claims are governed in the EU as voluntary statements on food labels to help consumers make ‘informed choices’. This poses an interesting problem: when claims refer to health, one can no longer ignore that consumers have bodies. Asking how these claims have become possible as a new kind of truth-statement on the market, this book reveals the contours of a fundamental tension between what is expected from consumers in a liberal market economy, and how food and the body come to trouble those expectations. In doing so, it illuminates why the difference between food and medicine is such a sensitive issue, and why seemingly trivial health claims have been subject to so much debate and political control.

Afterword by Isabelle Stengers.

By: Kim Hendrickx
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2023 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9789819949496
ISBN 10: 9819949491
Series: Health, Technology and Society
Pages: 179
Publication Date: 23 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kim Hendrickx is Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) in Belgium and member of the Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège, Belgium.