{"product_id":"risk-on-the-table-food-production-health-and-the-environment-9781789209440","title":"Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tOver 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 \u003cem\u003eRisk on the Table\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The editors have brought together enough international work to form a broad picture of changes in the global food system. This is an extremely welcome view of how those changes were received in different places at different times.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Technology and Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This collection draws insightful genealogies of a persistently virulent problem: food safety. The book brings together a series of well-written and exciting historical cases that together create a picture of the scientific and political struggles for food safety and their obstacles.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Alexander von Schwerin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“‘\u003c\/em\u003eRisk on the Table\u003cem\u003e’ is a perfectly apt title for a book which deals with a major concern of modern societies: What shall we eat? Combining perspectives of ‘food risk’ as a matter of health concerns; environmental issues; and economic, social and employment problems, this book is truly innovative.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Karin Zachmann\u003c\/strong\u003e, The Technical University of Munich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAngela N. H. Creager \u0026amp; Jean-Paul Gaudillière\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I:\u003c\/strong\u003e Objectifying Dangers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Salad Days: The Science and Medicine of Bad Greens, 1870–2000\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\u2028Anne Hardy\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Radioactive Diet: Food, Metabolism, and the Environment, c. 1960\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSoraya de Chadarevian\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Poison and Cancer: The Politics of Food Carcinogens in 1950s West Germany\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeiko Stoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e “EAT. DIE.” The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAngela N. H. Creager\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Risk on the Negotiating Table: Malnutrition, Mold Toxicity, and Postcolonial Development\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLucas M. Mueller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Contaminated Foods, Global Environmental Health, and the Political Recalcitrance of a Pollution Problem: The Case of PCBs from 1966 to the Present Day\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\u2028Aurélien Féron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Ordering Risks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Trace Amounts at Industrial Scale: Arsenicals and Medicated Feed in the Production of the “Western Diet”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHannah Landecker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: Agricultural Antibiotics and US Risk Regulation (1948–77)\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClaas Kirchhelle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Conflicts of Interest, Ignorance, and Hegemony in the Diethylstilboestral US Food Crisis\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJean-Paul Gaudillière\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Defining Food Additives: Origins and Shortfalls of the US Regulatory Framework\u2028\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaricel V. Maffini and Sarah Vogel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Rise (and Fall) of the Food-Drug Line: Classification, Gatekeepers, and Spatial Mediation in Regulating US Food and Health Markets\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eXaq Frohlich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u2028\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDeborah Fitzgerald \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042568569175,"sku":"9781789209440","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789209440.jpg?v=1750954678","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/risk-on-the-table-food-production-health-and-the-environment-9781789209440","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}