Ulrike Thoms

David F. Smith

Elizabeth Neswald

Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and needs of variable human bodies, setting standards for bodies and foods that would enable physicians and politicians to develop nutritional recommendations and food policies for individuals and populations. Setting Nutritional Standards brings together authors from a variety of disciplines to explore perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of modern nutrition science from the 1860s to the 1960s. The essays place the new science of nutrition within the changing social landscapes of Western Europe and the United States at the intersection of medicine, policy, social reform agendas, and public health initiatives. CONTRIBUTORS: Nick Cullather, Suzanne Junod, Deborah Neill, Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms, Corinna Treitel, Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska Elizabeth Neswald is associate professor for the history of science and technology at Brock University, Canada. David F. Smith is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Ulrike Thoms is a historian of science and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Theory, Policies, Practices

Setting Nutritional Standards

Krankenhaus und Gef�ngnis waren im 18. Jahrhundert vielfach noch unter einem Dach untergebracht, doch die frueheren multifunktionalen Anstalten differenzierten sich im 19. Jahrhundert aus. Dieser Proze� wurde begleitet durch breite gesellschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Diskussionen um Anstaltszwecke, das Bild vom Anstaltsinsassen und die Rolle der Medizin als Deutungsmacht. Am Beispiel der Ern�hrung und entlang der Kette von Beschaffung, Zubereitung und Verzehr fragt die Arbeit nach diesen Aushandlungsprozessen und ihren konkreten Folgen. Damit liefert sie einen Baustein zu einer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte von Krankenhaus wie Gef�ngnis.

Ulrike Thoms

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