Risk on the Table

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.

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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