Bibliografia bàsica (alimentació, salut i cultura):

CAPLAN, P: "Approaches to the study of food, health and identity", Food, health and identity, Londres, Routledge, 1997

TURNER, B.S: "The discourse of diet", FEATHERSTONE, M; HEPWORTH, M. y TURNER, B (eds.): The body. Social Process and Cultural Theory, Londres, SAGE Publications, reimp. 1999.

BEARDSWORTH, A y KEIL, T: cap. 6: "Changing conceptions of diet and health",  Sociology on the menu. An invitation to the study of food and society, Routledge, Londres,  1997.

COVENEY, J: "The Government of the table: nutrition expertise and the social organisation of family food habits", GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L (eds): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

DUFF, J: "Setting the Menu: Dietary Guidelines, Corporate Interests and Nutrition Policy", GERMOV Y WILLIAMS (eds): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

FITZGERALD, T.K: "Anthropological approaches to the study of food habits: some methodological issues, FITZGERALD, T.K (eds.): Nutrition and Anthropology Action, Amsterdam, Van Gorcum, 1977.

HUBERT, A y ESTAGER, M.P:  "Anthropologie de l'alimentation: quelle utilité pour la nutrition humaine?, Cahiers de nutrition et diététique, 34, 5, 1999.

IKEDA, J: "Culture, food and nutrition in increasingly culturally diverse societies", GERMOV, J. Y WILLIAMS, L. (eds.): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

JEROME, et al (eds): Nutritional Anthropology, Nueva York, Redgrave, 1980.

JING, J: "Food, nutrition and Cultural Authority", JING, J (dir.): Feeding Cihna's Little emperors, Stanford, Stanford Universtiy Press, 2000.

KJOERNES, U: "Political Struggle over Scientific Definitions: Nutrition as a Social Problem in Interwar Norwegian Nutrition Policy", MAURER, D y SOBAL, J. (eds.) Eating agendas. Food and nutrition as a social problems, Aldine, Nueva York, 1996.

LUPTON, D: cap. 3: "Food, health and nature", Food, the body and the self, SAGE Publications, Londres, 1996.

MENNELL et al.: cap 5: "Beliefs and practices about food and health: the lay perspective, The sociology of food. Eating, diet and culture, Londres, SAGE Publications, 1992.

NESTLÉ, M: From "Eat more" to "Eat less" 1900-1990", Food Politics. How the Food Industry influences Nutrion and Heath, Berkeley, Universtiy California Press, 2002.

PELTO, G: "Tendencias de la investigación en antropología nutricional", AINSWORTH, G et al: Carencia alimentaria. Una perspectiva antropológica, Barcelona, Serbal/Unesco, 1988.

PELTO et al: (eds.): Research methods in Nutritional Anthropology, Tokyo, United Nation University, 1989.

PRÄTTÄLÄ, R: "Outlining multidisciplinary food research", FÜRST, E.L et al. (eds): Palatable worlds: sociocultural food studies, Oslo, Solum Forlag, 1991.

SMITH, D: "The discourse of scientific knowledge of nutrition and dietary change in the twentieth century", MURCOTT, A (ed): The Nation's Diet, Londres. Logman, 1998.

SCRIMSHAW, S y HURTADO, H: Procedimientos de asesoría rápida para programas de nutrición y atención primaria de salud. Universidad de Naciones Unidas, UCLA, 1988.

POULAIN, J.P: cap. 5: "L'obesité et la médicalisation de l'alimentation quotidienne", Sociologies de l'alimentation, París, P.U.F., 2002

BEARDSWORTH, A y KEIL, T: cap 8: "Dieting, fat and body image", Sociology on the menu. An invitation to the study of food and society, Routledge, Londres,  1997.

BRUMBERG, J: caps. 4 y 6: "Emergence of the Modern Disease" y "Therapeutic Intervention", Fasting girls. The history of anorexia nervosa, Nueva York, Vintage Books, 2000.

CHERNIN, K: cap. 4: "Rites of passage", The hungry self: Women, Eating and Identity, Nueva York: Harper and Row, 1985.

COUNIHAN, C.M: caps. 5, 6 y 11: "What does it mean to be fat, thin and female?",  "An anthropological view of Western Women's Prodigious fasting y "Body and Power in Women's Experiences of reproduction in the United States", COUNIHAN, C.M: The anthropology of  food and body. Gender, meaning and power, London: Routledge, 1999

FALK, P: The consuming body, Londres, Sage Publications, 1994.

FISCHLER, C: cap. 11, 12 y 13: "La sociedad lipofoba", "La obesidad masculina o el reparto transgredido", "El cuerpo femenino: de Calipige a Tanagra",  L'(H)omnivore, Barcelona, Anagrama, 1995.

GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L: "The thin ideal: women, food and dieting", GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L (eds.): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

HEPWORTH, J: caps. 4 y 7: "Constructions of gender and identity in Anorexia Nervosa", "Anorexia Nervosa, Postmodern Reading of the Body and Narrative Therapy", The social constructions of anorexia nervosa, Gran Bretaña, Sage Publications, 1999.

HOWSON, A Y INGLIS, D: "The body in Sociology: tensions inside and outside sociological thougth", The Sociological Review, Vol. 49, n. 3, 2001.

KLEIN, R: "Introduction", Eat fat, Nueva York, Ventage Books, 1998.

LUPTON, D: "The asceticism/Consumption Dialectic", Food, the body and the self, SAGE Publications, Londres, 1996.

MACSWEEN, M: parte I: "Explaining anorexia", Anorexics bodies. A feminist and sociological perspective on Anorexia Nervosa, Londres, Routledge, 1995.

MENNELL, S. et. al: cap. 6: “Eating Disorders”, The sociology of food: eating, diet and culture, Sage Publications, Londres, 1982.

NICHTER, M. y VUCKOVIC, N.: "Fat Talk, Body image among adolescent girls", SAULT, N.(ed.): Many mirrors. Body image and social relations, USA, Rutgers University Press, 1994.

NICHTER, M: cap 2 , 3 y 4: "In the presence of the perfect girl", "Are girls really dieting" y "Looking good among african-american girls",  Fat talk. What girls and their parents say about dieting, Harvard University Press, Londres, 2000.

ORBACH, S: cap. 1: "Anorexia: metaphor for our time", Hunger Strike. The anorectic's struggle as a metaphor for our age, Londres, Penguin Books, 1993.

POLLOCK, N: " Social fattening patterns in the Pacific: The Positive Side of Obesity", GARINE, I. de y POLLOCK, N.J (eds.): Social Aspects of obesity, Amsterdam, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1995.

PITTS, V.: "Body modification, self-mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture", FEATHERSTONE, M(ed): Body modification, Londres, SAGE Publications, 2000.

SOBAL, J: "Sociological analysis of the stigmatisation of obesity", GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L (eds): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

SOBAL, J: "The medicalization and demedicalization of Obesity", MAURER, D y SOBAL, J (eds.): Eating agendas. Food and nutrition as a social problems, Aldine, Nueva York, 1996.

VAN DETH, R y VANDEREYCKEN, W. "The striking age-old minority of fasting  males in the history of anorexia nervosa", Food and Foodways, vol 7, 2, 1999.

WAY, K: "Never Too Rich... or Too Thin: The role of stigma in the Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa", MAURER, D y SOBAL, J. (eds.) Eating agendas. Food and nutrition as a social problems, Aldine, Nueva York, 1996.