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Zusatztext Anne Hardy provides a unique overview of Salmonella's rise as a modern health hazard and of the concomitant development of microbiology, epidemiology and public health ... Hardy provides a lucid tour de force through the history of Salmonella, microbiology, public health and food production. Her book's structure works very well in fusing these diverse histories into an insightful narrative. Readers are given a fascinating and important introduction not only to the world of Salmonella but also to the laboratories which illuminated this world. Informationen zum Autor Anne Hardy was on the academic staff of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and its successor the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, from 1990 to 2010. She is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Klappentext The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene. Zusammenfassung The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Pathways in Nature 1: Human Animals 2: The Hygiene of the Sea 3: Things with Wings 4: Other Animals Part 2: Laboratory Pursuits 5: Pursuing Parasites 6: Network and Knowledge 7: Names and Places Part 3: Sites of Infection 8: Field and Farm 9: Ghastly Kitchens - The Borgia Tradition Conclusion Bibliography ...