Another Persons Poison - A History of Food Allergy

Zusatztext Another Person's Poison is extremely well written! easy to read yet scholarly! and extensively documented. Informationen zum Autor Matthew Smith is professor of history at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. He is the author of An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet (2011) and Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (2012), and he is coeditor of Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World (2016). Klappentext 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Smith
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780231164856
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16485-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Tab; Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Healthy cuisine, light cuisine; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Allergies, MEDICAL / History, COOKING / Health & Healing / Allergy, Cookery / food & drink etc, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, History of Medicine, Medicine: Allergies