Matthew Smith

Another Person's Poison

A History of Food Allergy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Matthew Smith illuminates society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780231164856
• ISBN-10: 0231164858
• Artikelnr.: 48318329

Autorenporträt

Matthew Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: "Witchcraft, a fad, or a racket?"
1. Food Allergy Before Allergy
2. Anaphylaxis, Allergy, and the Food Factor in Disease
3. Strangest of All Maladies
4. Panic? Or the Pantry?
5. An Immunological Explosion?
6. The Problem with Peanuts
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Dr. Smith has written a thoughtful, well-sourced, well-analyzed history of food allergies, his book is an important contribution to the history of medicine. It will stand as definitive for some time." - Carla Keirns, Stony Brook University