“I’ve been reading some very good books lately,” says Gregory Stock, director of the Medicine, Technology, and Society programme at the University of California in Los Angeles, and author of Redesigning Humans (Profile).
Food Politics by Marion Nestle (University of California Press, 2002) is “a great overview of the tension in the US between food and nutraceuticals – both of which are essentially unregulated in their health claims – and pharmaceuticals,” he says. This particularly interests him because he has set up a company that has “a good shot at finding botanical extracts that will function as preventives for…
