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

  • Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987-
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New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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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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  • 9780813591513
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