Consuming passions : food in the age of anxiety

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Consuming passions : food in the age of anxiety

edited by Sian Griffiths and Jennifer Wallace

Manchester University Press, 1998

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What happened to the plague of HIV/AIDS that once seemed so threatening? Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility. Griffin suggests that changes in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, the shift from "dying of the disease" to "living with it" in Western cultures, and a failure to grasp the full extent of the growth and impact of HIV/AIDS in a number of African and Asian countries has led to the "death" of the disease in the Western media. -- .

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  • Consumer anxiety: towards a food democracy, Tim Lang
  • dining with death, Hugh Pennington
  • mad cows and Englishmen, Richard Lacey
  • setting food standards, Philip James
  • the "Yuk" factor, Derek Burke
  • cooking with kids, Prue Leith
  • banana bills, David Bederman
  • a vegetarian philosophy, Peter Singer
  • feeding the world, Tim Dyson
  • unequal health, Ann Ralph
  • waist not, want not, David Booth and Mary Douglas
  • the nation's diet, Ann Murcott
  • the prawn cocktail ritual, Alan Warde
  • ask the family, Roger Dickinson. Comfort food: interpreting starvation, Susie Orbach
  • kitchen revolution, Brian Harrison
  • savouring the antique, Emily Gowers
  • cooking the cannibals, William Arens
  • the evolution of appetites, Geoffrey Harrison
  • consuming nations, Shannon Peckham
  • feasting in the dark, Ian Christie
  • flesh sweeter than honey, Graham Ward
  • edible ecriture, Terry Eagleton.

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