Critical Dietetics and Critical Nutrition Studies

John Coveney is Professor of Global Food, Culture and Health at Flinders University. He is an accredited practising dietitian (Australia) and holds state registration in dietetics in the UK.  John has published over 200 articles, and sole-authored several books and book chapters on food, culture and health.Sue Booth is an academic at Flinders University in the College of Medicine and Public Health. Sue teaches into the Masters of Public Health program and has published in the areas of food insecurity and food systems.

• Chapter 1: Foundations of critical aspects of food and nutrition studies.- Chapter 2: Critical perspectives in clinical practice of nutrition and dietetics.- Chapter 3: Community nutrition and dietetics practices and food democracy.- Chapter 4: Policy and practice: what does this gap look like using a critical nutrition and dietetics lens?.- Chapter 5: Training and educating a critical nutrition and dietetic workforce: new perspectives.- Chapter 6: Why is a critically reflexive practice critical to nutrition and dietetics?.- Chapter 7: Swimming against the tide: 12 ways of bringing critical nutrition and dietetics into conventional practices.- Chapter 8: Critical nutrition and dietetics in industry, private practice and consultancy: the importance of ethics.- Chapter 9: World economic crisis: food, hunger and health disparities.- Chapter 10: Dietitian as Advocate and Activist: Our Past, Present, and Future Possibilities.- Chapter 11: Toward critical nutrition counselling practice and pedagogy.- Conclusion.