| Grant number: | 12/25181-5 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| Start date: | September 01, 2013 |
| End date: | December 28, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - History - History of Science |
| Principal Investigator: | Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb |
| Grantee: | Cristiana Loureiro de Mendonça Couto |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated research grant: | 11/14040-9 - Revealing natural processes through the laboratory (Phase II): the search for material principles in the three kingdoms until the specialization of science in the 1800s, AP.TEM |
Abstract The aim of this Project is to investigate the relationships between health, food and science, particularly medical and chemical concepts, in Brazilian and foreign cookbooks published between 1840 and 1889. The main object of this study will be Justus von Liebig`s ideas (1803-1873). The observations by that time indicating the importance of nitrogen for human diet lead the German chemist to propose a classification system differentiating non-nitrogenous and nitrogenous foods. We will analyze the influence of his ideas, as well as other scientific ideas of the period, into cookbooks published during that time. These are, in turn, related to discussions about nutrition and health that helped to determine the concept of an ideal diet for that time. This analysis will be undertaken through the intersection of historiographical, epistemic and contextual spheres of analysis, used in studies of history of Science by our Program. | |
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