Anne Hardy (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Centre for Hist

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Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975

Beschreibung

The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene.

Autor

Anne Hardy was on the academic staff of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and its successor the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, from 1990 to 2010. She is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780198704973
• ISBN-10: 0198704976
• Artikelnr.: 47869206