Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives

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Jim Phillips, David F. Smith
Routledge, 15. apr. 2013 - 280 sider
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.
 

Innhold

the case of
17
the science culture and health
37
The Peoples League of Health and the campaign against bovine
69
popularising the science of vitamins 1920s and 1930s
83
The rise and fall of the Scientific Food Committee during the Second
101
The food supply in The Netherlands during the Second World
117
nutrition commerce and patriotism in
135
The United Nations Protein Advisory Group
151
the case of the peanut butter
167
Departmental professional and political agendas in
189
science and policy science
223
Regulating GM foods in the 1980s and 1990s
239
Index
257
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Om forfatteren (2013)

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.

Bibliografisk informasjon

TittelFood, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
RedaktørerJim Phillips, David F. Smith
UtgiverRoutledge, 2013
ISBN113512860X, 9781135128609
Lengde280 sider
  
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