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

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction/Rethinking Food and Medicine

Part One/Food as Medicine

1 Healing Foods and Longevity

2 Dietary Prescriptions

Part Two/Medicine as Food

3 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

4 Genetically Modified Foods and Drugs

Conclusion/Eating and Medicating

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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