Title Pyrrhic progress : the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production / Claas Kirchhelle

Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) Series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Critical issues in health and medicine. Contents 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 Summary 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 food, and promote animals' growth. Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle's comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMR Analysis Health, medicine, antibiotics, history of antibiotics, Anglo-American food production, post-war agriculture, food production, agriculture, antibiotic use, antibiotic regulation, British food production, antibiotic resistance, twentieth century, US food production, United States, antibiotic infrastructure, animal welfare, antimicrobial resistance, farming, farmers, AMR, agricultural history, environmental history, public health, risk management Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2019) Subject Antibiotics in agriculture -- United States -- History Antibiotics in agriculture -- Great Britain -- History Drug resistance in microorganisms. Anti-Bacterial Agents -- history History, 21st Century History, 20th Century Agriculture -- history Legislation, Drug -- history Food Safety Drug Resistance, Microbial TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General. Drug resistance in microorganisms Antibiotics in agriculture SUBJECT United States United Kingdom Subject Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019009912 ISBN 9780813591513 0813591511 9780813591476 0813591473 0813591503 9780813591506

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