Claas Kirchhelle

Pyrrhic Progress

The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production

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Produktbeschreibung

Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813591476
• ISBN-10: 0813591473
• Artikelnr.: 56748335

Autorenporträt

CLAAS KIRCHHELLE (DPhil, Oxon) is a historian at the University of Oxford in the UK. His award-winning research explores the history of antibiotics and the development of modern risk perceptions, microbial surveillance, and international drug regulation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
1. The Sound of Coughing Pigs
Part I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards,
1949-1967
2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public
3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm
4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDA
Part II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969
5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public
6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming
7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in Britain
Part III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013
8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer
Solutions
9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms
10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA Power
Part IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018
11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere
12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming
13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index