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Hunger : the Biology and Politics of Starvation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.Publication details: Hanover : Dartmouth College Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781584659501
  • 1584659505
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.8
LOC classification:
  • HC79.F3 B88 2010
NLM classification:
  • 2010 M-487
  • WD 100
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine.
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A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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