Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / John Coveney.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index.

Foucault, discourse, power and the subject -- The governmentality of modern nutrition -- The Greeks to the Christians : from ethics to guilt -- Religion and reason : the emergence of a discourse on nutrition -- Paupers, prisoners and moral panics : refining the meaning of nutrition -- The nutritional policing of families -- Nutrition landscapes in late modernity -- Nutrition homescapes in late modernity -- An ethnography of family food : subjects of food choice -- The governmentality of girth.