On Hunger - Dana Simmons

On Hunger

Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic

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Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41298-9 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in U.S. history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology—a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

Dana Simmons is an historian of science and technology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.5.2025
Reihe/Serie California Studies in Food and Culture ; 85
Zusatzinfo 13 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-41298-2 / 0520412982
ISBN-13 978-0-520-41298-9 / 9780520412989
Zustand Neuware
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