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Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975 (Hardcover)
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Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975 (Hardcover)
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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.
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