title: [Sociological contributions to the study of human nutrition: a developing scientific perspective in Spain].
abstract: Human eating becomes one of the clearest intersections among biological, social, psychological and cultural processes nowadays. However, each scientific discipline has developed its own hypothesis and corpus of knowledge about human nutrition. Against this, it is the contention of this article to offer to nutritional professionals the efforts of sociology on this topic. It will be developed its purposes and contributions, its fields of research and, finally, a description of the social features of nourishment in modern societies.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Science Studies, Faculty of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancashire, Inglaterra. j.sanzporras@lancaster.ac.uk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanz Porras
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences; D012961:Sociology; D013030:Spain