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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Collection:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.