Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production /

Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987-

Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production / Claas Kirchhelle. - 1 online resource (372 pages). - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Antibiotics in agriculture.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--General.
Micro-organismes--Resistance aux medicaments.
Medecine--Histoire--20e siecle.
Medecine--Histoire--21e siecle.
Antibiotiques en agriculture--Histoire.--Grande-Bretagne
Antibiotiques en agriculture--Histoire.--États-Unis
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Food Safety
Legislation, Drug--history
Agriculture--history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Anti-Bacterial Agents--history
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Antibiotics in agriculture--History.--Great Britain
Antibiotics in agriculture--History.--United States


United States.
Great Britain.
United Kingdom
United States


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