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)
