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Risk on the table : food production, health, and the environment /
"Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world's population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Colección: | Environment in history ;
v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- RISK ON THE TABLE
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I
- Objectifying Dangers
- Chapter 1
- Salad Days: The Science and Medicine of Bad Greens, 1870-2000
- Chapter 2
- Radioactive Diet: Food, Metabolism, and the Environment, ca. 1960
- Chapter 3
- Poison and Cancer: The Politics of Food Carcinogens in 1950s West Germany
- Chapter 4
- "EAT. DIE." The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s
- Chapter 5
- Risk on the Negotiating Table: Malnutrition, Mold Toxicity, and Postcolonial Development
- Chapter 6
- Contaminated Foods, Global Environmental Health, and the Political Recalcitrance of a Pollution Problem: PCBs from 1966 to the Present Day
- Part II
- Ordering Risks
- Chapter 7
- Trace Amounts at Industrial Scale: Arsenicals and Medicated Feed in the Production of the "Western Diet"
- Chapter 8
- Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: Agricultural Antibiotics and US Risk Regulation (1948-77)
- Chapter 9
- Conflicts of Interest, Ignorance, Capture, and Hegemony in the Diethylstilbestrol US Food Crisis
- Chapter 10
- Defining Food Additives: Origins and Shortfalls of the US Regulatory Framework
- Chapter 11
- The Rise (and Fall) of the Food-Drug Line: Classificationn, Gatekeepers, and Spatial Mediation in Regulating US Food and Health Markets
- Afterword
- Index