ANTH 436 - Food, Health, and Culture

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
This seminar examines the relationship between food, health, illness, and healing. In particular, we will consider the role of expert knowledge about nutrition in relation to the globalization of foodways. How do the contemporary health sciences conceptualize a healthy diet? How are categories like food insecurity, obesity, and malnutrition conceptualized and intervened upon? What are the strengths and limitations of the medicalization of food? Topics may include metabolic syndromes, eating disorders, fatness, food safety, industrial foodways, and food movements.

Prerequisites: ANTH 101.