Proteins, Pathologies and Politics

David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Pomodoro! (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006). Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, UK. He is the author of An Alternative History of Hyperactivity (2011), Hyperactive (2012) and Another Person’s Poison (2015).

List of Illustrations
Introduction
David Gentilcore, (University of Leicester, UK) and Matthew Smith, (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Part One: Responding to Chronic Disease
1. The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet: Cancer in Nineteenth-Century Britain,
Agnes Arnold-Forster, (Kings College London, UK)
2. Nutrition, Starvation and Diabetic Diets: A Century of Change in the United States
Kirsten Gardner, (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
3. Allergic to Innovation? Dietary Change and Debate about Food Allergy in the United States
Matt Smith, (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Part Two: Scientific Discourses
4. Dietary Change and Epidemic Disease: Fame, Fashion and Expediency in the Italian Pellagra Disputes, 1852-1902
David Gentilcore, (University of Leicester, UK)
5. Conceptualizing the Vitamin and Pellagra as an Avitaminosis: A Case-Study Analysis of the Sedimentation Process of Medical Knowledge
Lucian Scrob, (The Central European University, Hungary)
6. Food and Diet as Risk: The Role of the Framingham Heart Study
Maiko Rafael Spiess, (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
7. From John Yudkin to Jamie Oliver: A Short but Sweet History on the War Against Sugar
Rachel Meach, (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Part Three: The Politics of Diet
8. The Popularization of a New Nutritional Concept: The Calorie in Belgium, 1914-1918
Peter Scholliers, (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
9. Nutritional Reform and Public Feeding in Britain, 1917-1919
Bryce Evans, Liverpool Hope University, UK
10. The Sin of Eating Meat: Fascism, Nazism and the Construction of Sacred Vegetarianism
Francesco Buscemi, (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy)
11. "Milk Is Life”: Nutritional Interventions and Child Welfare: The Italian Case and Post-War International Aid
Silvia Inaudi, (Università degli studi di Torino, Italy)
12. Like Oil and Water: Food Additives and America’s Food Identity Standards in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Clare Gordon, University of California, Irvine, USA)

Bibliography
Index