The September 2011 issue of the journal Science, Technology, & Human Values, is a special issue entitled “Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices.” Situating the articles that compose the issue “within [an] intellectual tradition rooted in the borderlands of anthropology, science studies, and the history of science–altogether heavily influenced by feminism,” Kontopodis, Niewöhner, and Beck write in their introduction that the…
Tag Archives: Obesity
Workshop announcement: Obesity, eating disorders, and the media (Oxford, Nov 9)
Obesity, eating disorders, and the media: An interdisciplinary workshop
Wednesday 9 November 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
The rising global prevalence of obesity and eating disorders can be considered one of the top public health challenges of the 21st century. With the large volume of recent scientific research on these conditions, and the increasing number of …
Complex Carbohydrates: On the relevance of ethnography in nutrition education
This post was contributed by Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam)
I thank Somatosphere for inviting me to submit to their blog. I am in the process of completing my book manuscript: The Weight of the Body: Changing Ideals of Fatness, Nourishment and Health in Guatemala. My entry for this blog does not come directly from material included in the book, …