Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food

This book investigates how vast amounts of consumer data amassed by private companies, alongside epidemiological analysis of dietary type, social class and resulting health profiles, is used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products and consumers and to shape food consumption patterns.

Author: Carolyn Mahoney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/06/2019
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780367341442

About the Author

Following an extended career in public affairs, as a speechwriter and later as a newsroom journalist and editor, Carolyn Mahoney obtained her doctorate at the University of Sussex, UK. She is based in London and is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Brighton, UK.