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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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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.