Sacred cow, mad cow : a history of food fears
Title:
Sacred cow, mad cow : a history of food fears
Author:
Ferrières, Madeleine.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Histoire des peurs alimentaires. English
Edition:
American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
xiii, 399 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Forbidden meats. -- Political meat. -- The birth of the consumer. -- The vigilant consumer. -- The phobia of new plants. -- Bread on trial. -- Silent fears. -- The pâté and the garden. -- Hungarian cattle disease. -- From the epizootic to the epidemic. -- The politics of precaution. -- The dangers of imperfect metals. -- Health conflicts. -- Bourgeois serenity. -- English cattle disease. -- The poisoners of Chicago.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents onlyBook review (H-Net) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0608/2005051796.html
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e6w8-aa
ISBN:
9780231131926
Format :
Book
