Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production

Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production

Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve foo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987- author (author), Golden, Janet (Editor), Apple, Rina D. (Otro)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2020
New Brunswick : [2020]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Materias:
Agriculture > History.
Drug legalization > history.
Food > Safety measures.
Drug resistance in microorganisms > Genetic aspects.
Anti-Bacterial Agents > history
United States
United Kingdom
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423983106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sound of coughing pigs
  • Picking one's poisons : antibiotics and the public
  • Chemical cornucopia : antibiotics on the farm
  • Toxic priorities : antibiotics and the FDA
  • A fusion of concerns : antibiotics and the British public
  • Bigger, better, faster : antibiotics and British farming
  • Typing resistance : antibiotic regulation in Britain
  • The public : antibiotics, failed bans, and growing fears
  • The agricultural community : hostility in sinking numbers
  • The government : failing to regulate
  • Yearning for purity
  • British farming and the environmental turn
  • Swann song : British antibiotic policy after 1969.

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