Philip K Wilson: Chocolate as Medicine

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Cover: 9781849734110 | Chocolate as Medicine | A Quest over the Centuries | Wilson (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

The Mesoamerican population who lived near the indigenous cultivation sites of the "Chocolate Tree" (Theobromo cacao) had a multitude of documented applications of chocolate as medicine, ranging from alleviating fatigue to preventing heart ailments to treating snakebite. Until recently, these applications have received little sound scientific scrutiny. Rather, it has been the reputed health claims stemming from Europe and the United States which have attracted considerable biomedical attention. This book, for the first time, describes the centuries-long quest to uncover chocolate's potential health benefits. The authors explore variations in the types of evidence supporting chocolate's use as medicine as well as note the ongoing tension over categorizing chocolate as food or medicine, and more recently, as functional food or nutraceutical. The authors, Wilson an historian of science and medicine, and Hurst an analytical chemist in the chocolate industry, bring their collective insights to bear upon the development of ideas and practices surrounding the use of chocolate as medicine. Chocolate's use in this manner is explored first among the Mesoamerican peoples, then as it is transported to Europe, and back into Colonial North America. The authors then focus upon more recent bioscience experimental undertakings which have been aimed to ascertain both long-standing and novel suggestions as to chocolate's efficacy as a medicinal and a nutritional substance. Chocolate's reputation as the most craved food boosts this book's appeal to food and biomedical scientists, cacao researchers, ethnobotanists, historians, folklorists, and healers of all types as well as to the general reading audience.

Über den Autor

The authors have written this work while both working in the famed United States chocolate town, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Philip K. Wilson, MA, PhD is Professor of Medical Humanities and Science, Technology & Society as well as Director of The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey. W. Jeffrey Hurst, PhD is a Principle Scientist at Hershey Foods Technical Center in Hershey, and founding Treasurer of the International Society of Chocolate and Cocoa in Medicine.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chocolate as Medicine: Seeking 'Evidence' throughout History; Chocolate in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Culture; Cacao Transported to Europe as Medicine; Expanding Chocolate's use as Medicine; Chocolate and Nutritional Health: Industrial Era through WWII; Modern Chocolate Science and Human Health; Epilogue: Prognosticating Chocolate's Future as Medicine; Appendix 1: Disorders and Diseases which Chocolate (Cacao) Products have Reputedly Improved Throughout History; Appendix 2: 18th Century General Recipe for "Health Chocolate"; Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Toxikologie
Genre:	Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	213
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781849734110
ISBN-10:	1849734119
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wilson, Philip K (Formerly East Tennessee State University, USA) Hurst, W Jeffrey (The Hershey Company Technical Centre, USA)
Hersteller:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Abbildungen:	No
Maße:	148 x 224 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Philip K Wilson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.10.2012
Gewicht:	0,348 kg

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