Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Risk on the Table
Angela N H Creager, Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Deborah Fitzgerald
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 400pg
16 Dec 2020 UK
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9781789209440
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Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world' s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply' s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers' decisions, and cultural notions of "pure" food.
"This collection draws insightful genealogies of a persistently virulent problem: food safety. The book brings together a series of well-written and exciting historical cases that together create a picture of the scientific and political struggles for food safety and their obstacles. " Alexander von Schwerin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science"' Risk on the Table' is a perfectly apt title for a book which deals with a major concern of modern societies: What shall we eat? Combining perspectives of ' food risk' as a matter of health concerns; environmental issues; and economic, social and employment problems, this book is truly innovative. " Karin Zachmann, The Technical University of Munich
Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 2016-20. Her current work focuses on the role of genetic tests in environmental science and regulation during the late twentieth century. Jean-Paul Gaudilliere is a Senior Researcher at the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, and a Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is currently working on the transition from "international public health" to "global health," with a specific focus on developments in East Africa and South Asia.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789209440
Published: 16 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 400

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