This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. Case studies include pasteurisation in Britain and the E coli outbreak. Editor(s): Smith, David F.; Phillips, Jim. Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; JFF; KNDF; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635. . 2000. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415235324
ISBN 13: 9780415235327
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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David F. Smith lectures in the history of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He has long-standing interests in the history of nutrition, and edited Nutrition in Britain. He co-ordinates the Wellcome-Trust-funded project on the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak., Jim Phillips lectures in economic and social history at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on British labour, economic and social history. His co-authored publications include articles on food adulteration, arsenic poisoning and milk safety, and Cheated Not Poisoned: Food Regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875–1938.

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