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일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생

Historians of science have noted that modern nation-states and capitalism necessitated the systematic creation and implementation of a wide array of knowledge and technologies to produce a more productive and robust population. Commonly labeled as biopolitical practices in Foucauldian sense, such en...

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Publicado: The Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10565047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30679412
http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2018.27.447
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description Historians of science have noted that modern nation-states and capitalism necessitated the systematic creation and implementation of a wide array of knowledge and technologies to produce a more productive and robust population. Commonly labeled as biopolitical practices in Foucauldian sense, such endeavors have often been discussed in the realms of public hygiene, housing, birth control, and child mortality, among others. This article is an attempt to extend the scope of the discussion by exploring a relatively understudied domain of nutrition science as a critical case of social engineering and intervention, specifically during and after World War I in the case of Japan. Research and dissemination of knowledge on food and health in Japan, like other industrializing nation-states, centered on new public hygiene initiatives since the late nineteenth-century. However, in the aftermath of WWI, or more precisely, after the Rice Riots of 1918, a new trend began to dominate the discourse of nutrition and health. In the face of wartime inflation and the resultant nation-wide riots, physicians and social scientists alike began to view the food choice and budget issue as a solution to the middle class crisis. This new perception drew on the conceptual framework to understand food, metabolism, and cost in the language of quantifiable nutrition vis-à-vis monetary values. By analyzing how specific nutritional knowledge was translated into the tenets for public campaigns to reform everyday life, this paper ultimately sheds light on the institutionalization of a new area of research, nutrition (eiyō) in Japan.
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spelling pubmed-105650472023-11-07 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생 Uisahak Article Historians of science have noted that modern nation-states and capitalism necessitated the systematic creation and implementation of a wide array of knowledge and technologies to produce a more productive and robust population. Commonly labeled as biopolitical practices in Foucauldian sense, such endeavors have often been discussed in the realms of public hygiene, housing, birth control, and child mortality, among others. This article is an attempt to extend the scope of the discussion by exploring a relatively understudied domain of nutrition science as a critical case of social engineering and intervention, specifically during and after World War I in the case of Japan. Research and dissemination of knowledge on food and health in Japan, like other industrializing nation-states, centered on new public hygiene initiatives since the late nineteenth-century. However, in the aftermath of WWI, or more precisely, after the Rice Riots of 1918, a new trend began to dominate the discourse of nutrition and health. In the face of wartime inflation and the resultant nation-wide riots, physicians and social scientists alike began to view the food choice and budget issue as a solution to the middle class crisis. This new perception drew on the conceptual framework to understand food, metabolism, and cost in the language of quantifiable nutrition vis-à-vis monetary values. By analyzing how specific nutritional knowledge was translated into the tenets for public campaigns to reform everyday life, this paper ultimately sheds light on the institutionalization of a new area of research, nutrition (eiyō) in Japan. The Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2018-12 2018-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10565047/ /pubmed/30679412 http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2018.27.447 Text en © 대한의사학회 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title_full 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title_fullStr 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title_full_unstemmed 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title_short 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
title_sort 일상의 과학화, 식생활의 합리화: 1910-20년대 일본 근대 영양학의 탄생
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10565047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30679412
http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2018.27.447
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