June 28, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 28, 2013

An Interview with Gyorgy Scrinis

Read an interview with Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice.

June 27, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on Alternatives to Nutritionism

“Nutrition experts can either lead or be led by the burgeoning food-quality movement and can choose to play a key role in developing food-quality literacy and food policies that promote and pro­tect the quality of our food.”—Gyorgy Scrinis In the...

June 26, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on the Commodification of Nutritionism

“Food corporations have colonized the nutriscape, flooding the food supply with nutritionally engineered products and nutritional marketing claims and accentuating the nutritional anxieties and nutritional needs of consumers—needs that these corporations are well placed to commodify and exploit.”—Gyorgy Scrinis, Nutritionism...

June 25, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Sports, Italian Food, Pests, and The Problem with Pleasure

The following books are now available: Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers Benjamin C. Alamar Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation Massimo Montanari People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning From Our Body’s...

June 25, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on Nutritionism

The following post is by Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice: Does the food you’re eating contain good or bad fats, good or bad carbs, vitamin D, fiber, calcium, antioxidants, cheap calories, or empty...

June 21, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 21, 2013

Donna Dickenson: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

“Under the pressure of corporate interests and neoliberal policies, we’ve lost sight of the idea of the commons in biomedicine—but it has only disappeared temporarily from view. Reclaiming biotechnology for the greater good will involve resurrecting the commons.”—Donna Dickenson In...

June 20, 2013

An interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Read an interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd, authors of The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving.

June 20, 2013

Donna Dickenson on How Neoliberalism Is Shaping Science and Medicine

“Who would have predicted twenty years ago that you could get people to pay to … have a spit sample ana­lyzed to predict their personal propensity to common diseases?”—Donna Dickenson, Me Medicine vs. We Medicine In the following excerpt from...

June 19, 2013

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano: How Do Plants Sound?

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano discuss new research that shows that plants may make sounds independently of dehydration and cavitation-related processes.

June 19, 2013

Donna Dickenson, author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine, Takes the Page 99 Test

“We risk losing sight of the common good in biotechnology—what I call ‘We Medicine’—in our haste to embrace personalized healthcare.”–Donna Dickenson The Page 99 Test asks authors to turn to page 99 in their books and explain how the page...