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Contents: 1. Food Policy and Regulation: a Multiplicity of Actors and Experts David F. Smith and Jim Phillips 2. Compositional Food Standards in the United Kingdom: the Case of the Willis Inquiry, 1929-1934 Michael French and Jim Phillips 3. The Pasteurisation of England: the Science, Culture and Health Implications of Milk Processing, 1900-1950 Peter J. Atkins 4. Veterinary Inspection and Food Hygiene in the Twentieth Century Peter A. Koolmees 5. The People's League of Health and the Campaign Against Bovine Tuberculosis in the 1930s L. Margaret Barnett 6. 'Axes to Grind': Popularising the Science of Vitamins, 1920s and 1930s Harmke Kamminga 7. The Rise and Fall of the Scientific Food Committee During the Second World War David F. Smith 8. The Food Supply in the Netherlands During the Second World War Gerard Trienekens 9. Vitamins Win the War: Nutrition, Commerce, and Patriotism in the United States During the Second World War Rima D. Apple 10. The United Nations Protein Advisory Group Josh Ruxin 11. Food Standards in the United States: the Case of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Suzanne White Junod 12. Departmental, Professional, and Political Agendas in the Implementation of the Recommendations of a Food Crisis Enquiry: the Milne Report and Inspection of Overseas Meat Plants Lesley Diack, T. Hugh Pennington, Elizabeth Russell and David Smith 13. Post-War Nutrition Science and Policy Making in Britain c.1945-1994: the Case of Diet and Heart Disease Mark W. Bufton and Virginia Berridge 14. Recent Experiences in Food Poisoning: Science and Policy, Science and the Media T. Hugh Pennington 15. Regulating GM Foods in the 1980s and 1990s David Barling
This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the
interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred
years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in
Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those
interested in science policy and the role of expertise in modern
political culture.
Study of the 1963/4 typhoid outbreak, highlighting issues and
debates which are strikingly relevant today. The problem of food
poisoning and food-borne infections is currently one of vigorous
debate, highlighted since the 1980s by numerous outbreaks and
scares involving salmonella in lettuce and eggs, listeria in
cheese, the links between vCJD and BSE, E.Coli 0157 in cooked
meats, and foot and mouth disease. Yet, as this book shows, the
various issues involved were important as early as 1963/4, when
there were serious typhoid outbreaks in Harlow, South
Shields,Bedford, and Aberdeen, traced to contaminated corned beef
imported from Argentina. Based upon extensive research, using
archives which have only recently become available, private papers,
and interviews as well as secondary literature, the book analyses
the course of the outbreak and looks at the responses of
politicians, officials, health professionals, business interests,
the media and the public. It also considers the difficult issue of
the weighing offood safety against international trade and other
business and economic interests; conflicts between government
departments; rivalry between professionals such as doctors and
veterinarians; the effects upon and influence of victims and local
communities; and the conduct of and responses to an official
enquiry. Overall, it draws out generic lessons for how such
epidemics should be handled, adding an historical perspective to
contemporary debates.
Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and
policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United
States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Suzanne Junod's essay
"Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the
Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017
Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal
Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of
thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists
identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization,
industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional
dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns
about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public
health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and
needs of variable human bodies, setting standards for bodies and
foods that would enable physicians and politicians to develop
nutritional recommendations and food policies for individuals and
populations. Setting Nutritional Standards brings together authors
from a variety of disciplines to explore perspectives on the
theory, practices, and policies of modern nutrition science from
the 1860s to the 1960s. The essays place the new science of
nutritionwithin the changing social landscapes of Western Europe
and the United States at the intersection of medicine, policy,
social reform agendas, and public health initiatives. CONTRIBUTORS:
Nick Cullather, Suzanne Junod, Deborah Neill, Elizabeth Neswald,
David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms, Corinna Treitel, Ina
Zweiniger-Bargielowska Elizabeth Neswald is associate professor for
the history of science and technology at Brock University,
Canada.David F. Smith is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the history of
medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Ulrike Thoms is a historian
of science and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science.
This book will help parents and youth sort through some of the lies
that permeate the youth culture today. Completely biblical basis
provides solid truth to possible answers.
In Dying Of A Light, DF Smith skillfully recreates the picturesque
waterfront university campus in historic Virginia, the raw sounds,
smells & mindstate of the Jersey City street ecosystem. He
gives an interesting insight into the sociocultural theoretical
perspective of urban youth. familiar to some, known to a few, but
told by none. The story begins in the early seventies when
Palladium is born into chaos and rescued by a strong Black woman.
He embarks upon an odyssey which is all to natural in regards to
his genetic coding, but contrary to his moral home teachings. This
serious life threatening, life loosing narrative gives a unique
view into the actuality of events that take place subsequent to
young adults leaving their parents nest. & detail, Smith
presents an all to rarely witnessed part of young black culture
with a provocative portrayal of the silent bonds between men &
women of color. difficult decisions in the face of unimaginable
danger, giving a clearer, deeper understanding to the
psychodynamics of the urban Black mind.
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