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Author Hardy, Anne, 1953- author.

Title Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975 / Anne Hardy
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Part I Pathways in nature -- 1. Human animals -- 2. The Hygiene of the sea -- 3. Things with wings -- 4. Other animals -- Part 2 Laboratory pursuits -- 5. Pursuing parasites -- 6. Network and knowledge -- 7. Names and places -- Part 3 Sites of infection -- 8. Field and farm -- 9. Ghastly kitchens : the Borgia tradition
Summary A scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of its 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 20, 2015)
Subject Food poisoning -- Great Britain -- History
Salmonella infections -- Great Britain -- History
Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Foodborne Diseases -- history
Salmonella Food Poisoning -- history
Salmonella Infections -- history
Public Health -- history
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Food poisoning
Public health
Salmonella infections
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191774058
0191774057
9780191015038
0191015032