Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 December 2014
- ISBN 9780198704973
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 240x162x21 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene.
MoreLong description:
Salmonella infections were the most significant food poisoning organisms affecting human and animal health across the globe for most of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Anne Hardy uncovers the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem and of Salmonella as its cause. She demonstrates how pathways of infection through eggs, flies, meat, milk, shellfish, and prepared foods were realised, and the roles of healthy human and animal carriers understood. This volume takes us into the world of the laboratories where Salmonella and their habits were studied - a world with competing interests, friendships, intellectual agreements and disagreements - and describes how the importance of different strains of these bacteria and what they showed about agricultural practices, global trade, and modern industrial practices came to be understood. Finally, Hardy takes us from unhygienic practice on fields and farms, to crucial sites of bacterial exchange in slaughterhouse and kitchen, where infections like Salmonella and Campylobacter enter the human food chain, and where every cook can make the difference between well-being and suffering in those whom they feed. This history is based on a case-study of the British experience, but it is set in the context of today's immense global problem of food-borne disease which affects all human societies, and is one of the most urgent and important problems in global public health.
will deservedly become a standard text for historians of late 19th- and early 20th-century public health in Britain. The narrative reveals the uneven, yet revolutionary impact of bacteriology on epidemiology and public health practice and sets events in Britain in a transnational context. The book is a must too for social historians, as it offers fascinating and novel insights into domestic life, through what food was brought into the home, how it was prepared and eaten, and how, too often, it had unwanted consequences.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Pathways in Nature
Human Animals
The Hygiene of the Sea
Things with Wings
Other Animals
Part 2: Laboratory Pursuits
Pursuing Parasites
Network and Knowledge
Names and Places
Part 3: Sites of Infection
Field and Farm
Ghastly Kitchens - The Borgia Tradition
Conclusion
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