Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Nancy N. Chen

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December, 2008
Cloth, 144 pages, 7 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13484-2
$26.50 / £18.50

"Nancy N. Chen helps us understand how ideas about food, health, and the body are entwined with and contingent upon prevailing notions of science and philosophical orientation." — Amy Bentley, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University

"Nancy N. Chen makes the complex and often confusing nexus of food and health understandable. Her book blends millennia-old wisdom with today's best scientific knowledge. It is also a delicious read filled with savory nuggets of uncommon insight." — Andrew Smith, editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Related Subjects

• Food History & Culinary Studies

About the Author

Nancy N. Chen is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (on leave) and is now teaching at Scripps College. A medical anthropologist, she also teaches courses on food, gender and health, ethnographic film, China, and Asian Americans.

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