Food allergy and food intolerance
Towards a Sociological Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4784544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Nettleton (0000-0002-5184-2764, University of York, corresponding author), Brian Wood, Brian Woods (University of York), Roger Burrows (0000-0001-6837-1586, University of York), Anne Kerr (0000-0002-9958-301X, University of Leeds) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 647-664 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459308341433 |
| PMID | 19841024 |
| OpenAlex | W2033559114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the supposed increase in both. Food allergy and food intolerance are contested and contingent terms and it is salient that the term true food allergy is replete throughout medico-scientific, epidemiological and popular discourses in order to rebuff spurious or 'nonallergic' claims of food-related symptoms. Complexity theory is introduced as a means of gaining analytic purchase on the food allergy debate. The article concludes that the use of this perspective provides a contemporary example of the 'double hermeneutic', in that the meanings and interpretations of contemporary explanations of food allergy are both permeated by, and can be made sense of, through recourse to complexity thinking
Allergy · Environmental health · Food allergy · Food intolerance · Sociology · Chemistry · Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research · Food Safety and Hygiene · Medicine · Food Science · Immunology
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Cultural Intolerance, in Practice
‘Do you think this is normal?’
Economic imaginaries of the Anti-biosis
Low income, high risk
Everybody has to think - do I have any peanuts and nuts in my lunch?' School nurses, collective adherence, and children's food allergies
"Ne nnipadua mmpe" (the body hates it)
Parsing the peanut panic
But we're not hypochondriacs
Pursuing a "normal" life of food
The management of situated risk
Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance
White as milk
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices
Purity and Danger
Hay fever, hygiene, and household size.
The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies
The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Bioattack or Panic Attack? Critical Reflections on the Ill-logic of Bioterrorism and Biowarfare in Late/Postmodernity
I just want permission to be ill
Governing peanuts
Lay voices on allergic conditions in children
Postmodernism and Immune Selfhood
Toward an Anthropology of Immunology
The Place of Complexity
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |