Nutrition in Britain: Science, Scientists, and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyDavid F. Smith This selection of essays provides a valuable insight into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition in Britain.This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The topics covered include: the chewing cult of Horace Fletcher, dietetic education, the popularization of milk, the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, and wartime involvement in policy making.The selection of essays in Nutrition in Britain provide valuable new insights into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition. This book will be fascinating reading to historians of science or medicine, as well as to medical sociologists, nutritionists, home economists, health educators, food activists and anyone with a professional or general interest in food and nutrition. |
Contents
Margaret Barnett | 6 |
53 | 16 |
THE FOUNDATION AND EARLY YEARS OF | 29 |
NUTRITION SCIENCE AND THE FOOD | 53 |
EDUCATION | 75 |
THE NUTRITION WORK | 99 |
NUTRITION SCIENCE AND THE TWO WORLD | 142 |
AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT IN | 166 |
GOVERNMENT POLICY ON SCHOOL MEALS | 190 |
DOES EARLY NUTRITION AFFECT LATER | 214 |
FOOD CAMPAIGNS DURING | 238 |
Common terms and phrases
Agriculture April argued August became Biochemistry Britain British Medical Journal BSSRS Cambridge campaign Chemistry Committee deficiency Department diet dietary dietetics dietitians disease Dunn early Edward Mellanby established experiments F. G. Hopkins feeding film firms Fletcher Papers Food Manufacture food policy Frederick Gowland Hopkins Glasgow Harris's home economics Hopkins's Horace Fletcher Horrocks household science ibid important increase infant Institute inter-war interest John Boyd Orr KCHSS L. J. Harris Lady Rhys Williams Lever Brothers London March Marmite Medical Officer Medical Research Council Mellanby ment Minister Ministry mortality mothers Mottram National NBTF NGOs nutrition research nutrition science Nutritional Laboratory organisation Pharmaceutical Physiology problems programme protein public health Queen Elizabeth College Ravenhill Report Reynard Rhys Williams role Rotha Royal Society school meals scientific scientists social Treasury University vitamin vitamin D W. M. Fletcher Wellcome women World of Plenty Zilva