Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Angela N. H. Creager, Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

366 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-736-6 (ISBN)

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Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers’ decisions, and cultural notions of “pure” food.

Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 2016–20. Her current work focuses on the role of genetic tests in environmental science and regulation during the late twentieth century.

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Angela N. H. Creager & Jean-Paul Gaudillière

Part I: Objectifying Dangers

Chapter 1. Salad Days: The Science and Medicine of Bad Greens, 1870–2000

 Anne Hardy 

Chapter 2. Radioactive Diet: Food, Metabolism, and the Environment, c. 1960

Soraya de Chadarevian 

Chapter 3. Poison and Cancer: The Politics of Food Carcinogens in 1950s West Germany 

Heiko Stoff

Chapter 4. “EAT. DIE.” The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s 

Angela N. H. Creager

Chapter 5. Risk on the Negotiating Table: Malnutrition, Mold Toxicity, and Postcolonial Development 

Lucas M. Mueller

Chapter 6. Contaminated Foods, Global Environmental Health, and the Political Recalcitrance of a Pollution Problem: The Case of PCBs from 1966 to the Present Day

 Aurélien Féron

Part II: Ordering Risks

Chapter 7. Trace Amounts at Industrial Scale: Arsenicals and Medicated Feed in the Production of the “Western Diet”

Hannah Landecker

Chapter 8. Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: Agricultural Antibiotics and US Risk Regulation (1948–77) 

Claas Kirchhelle

Chapter 9. Conflicts of Interest, Ignorance, and Hegemony in the Diethylstilboestral US Food Crisis 

Jean-Paul Gaudillière

Chapter 10. Defining Food Additives: Origins and Shortfalls of the US Regulatory Framework 

Maricel V. Maffini and Sarah Vogel

Chapter 11. The Rise (and Fall) of the Food-Drug Line: Classification, Gatekeepers, and Spatial Mediation in Regulating US Food and Health Markets

Xaq Frohlich

Afterword 

Deborah Fitzgerald

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Environment in History: International Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-736-2 / 1805397362
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-736-6 / 9781805397366
Zustand	Neuware