Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.
Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.
CLAAS KIRCHHELLE (DPhil, Oxon) is a historian at the University of Oxford in the UK. His award-winning research explores the history of antibiotics and the development of modern risk perceptions, microbial surveillance, and international drug regulation.
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List of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing Pigs Part I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDA Part II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in Britain Part III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA Power Part IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
List of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing Pigs Part I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDA Part II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in Britain Part III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA Power Part IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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