Overview
- Serves as a training tool or support for course development
- Written by an interdisciplinary team of experts
- Includes case studies on ethical issues
Part of the book series: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain (ISEKI-Food, volume 13)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Food Ethics Issues
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Food Ethics Case Studies
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About this book
The book is divided in 3 sections, each containing several chapters: Section 1 includes chapters that identify and discuss several ethical issues along the food chain, with particular detail of issues in the food industry and in consumer behavior; Section 2 includes chapters that present the basis of a code of conduct in the food profession as well as the description of existing codes of conduct of food industry and food scientist professionals, including ethics of publishing, and also ethics in risk communication;Â Section 3 includes chapters based on case studies with examples of teaching approaches currently used in teaching food ethics, easy to implement and already tested and confirmed as successful examples that engage students in this topic.
Although professional ethics in food supply chain is claimed as an essential topic to be addressed in any degree program, few higher education institutions that currently include a module on ethics in their study programs. In g
eneral, it is argued that ethics is a topic addressed along the curriculum and embedded in the contents of the modules. However, ethics, for its importance, needs a different teaching and educational approach, and this book achieves that.. Â ÂEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rui Costa is a professor of food engineering at the College of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. He has a first degree and a Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the Catholic University of Portugal. His research interests include transport phenomena in food processing, safety and environmental aspects of food processing, the shelf life of foods, and use of new protein sources in foods. He has a long experience, at international level, in quality assurance of higher education, curriculum development in food studies, regulation of food professions, and the improvement of the links between research-education-industry.
Paola Pittia is professor in food science and technology at the Faculty of Bioscience and Technology of the University of Teramo. Her research expertise is on food processing and product design as well as on quality and shelf-life of foods. She has a long and internationally recognized experience on Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance in Food studies and innovative teaching materials. She was the coordinator of the Erasmus Thematic Network ISEKI-Food 4 and currently is the President of the ISEKI-Food Association, nonprofit, international organization with activities aimed to strengthen the interactions between education, research and industry.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Ethics Education
Editors: Rui Costa, Paola Pittia
Series Title: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64738-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64736-4Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87858-4Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64738-8Published: 27 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2512-2223
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Science, Science Education, Higher Education