The prescriptive whiteness of culinary medicine: Reinforcing medical authority through epistemic erasure
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on June 29, 2026
Abstract
Health, Ahead of Print.
Culinary Medicine (CM) is positioned by physician leaders as an innovative, interdisciplinary model addressing the long-neglected role of food and nutrition in clinical healthcare. Yet its institutional rise recenters medical authority and erases the ...
Culinary Medicine (CM) is positioned by physician leaders as an innovative, interdisciplinary model addressing the long-neglected role of food and nutrition in clinical healthcare. Yet its institutional rise recenters medical authority and erases the ...