Pyrrhic progress : the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production /

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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Temas:
Antibiotics in agriculture > United States > History.
Antibiotics in agriculture > Great Britain > History.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Anti-Bacterial Agents > history
History, 21st Century
History, 20th Century
Agriculture > history
Legislation, Drug > history
Food Safety
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Antibiotiques en agriculture > États-Unis > Histoire.
Antibiotiques en agriculture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Micro-organismes > Résistance aux médicaments.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Antibiotics in agriculture
United States
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Health, medicine, antibiotics, history of antibiotics, Anglo-American food production, post-war agriculture, food production, agriculture, antibiotic use, antibiotic regulation, British food production, antibiotic resistance, twentieth century, US food production, United States, antibiotic infrastructure, animal welfare, antimicrobial resistance, farming, farmers, AMR, agricultural history, environmental history, public health, risk management.
History
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  • 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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