Hunger : the Biology and Politics of Starvation.
A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine.
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| Språk: | engelska |
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Hanover :
Dartmouth College Press,
2010.
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies. |
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Innehållsförteckning:
- The silent emergency
- The framework of understanding
- The basics of nutrition
- The anatomy and physiology of nutrition
- Agriculture: the birth of civilization ... and famine
- Responses on the ground
- Responses: government and international
- Responses to malnutrition
- Why do some people starve?
- Why do some people die?
- The biological basis for political behavior
- The right to food
- Best practices
- Prescription for change.