Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198704973
Subjects: Food poisoning; Public health, great britain; Gram-negative bacterial infections
Description: A scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of its 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.