Another Persons Poison - A History of Food Allergy

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Smith Klappentext A bias-free exploration of the contentious issue of food allergy, that has spread from the lunchbox to the workplace to the highest levels of government. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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"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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Matthew Smith
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.05.2015
• EAN: 9780231164849
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16484-9
• Seiten: 312
• Serien: Arts and Traditions of the Tab; Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Table; Arts and Traditions of the Table (CUP)
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Ratgeber > Essen & Trinken > Gesunde Küche, Schlanke Küche; HEALTH & FITNESS / Allergies, MEDICAL / History, COOKING / Health & Healing / Allergy, Cookery / food & drink etc, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, History of Medicine, Medicine: Allergies