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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

byDeborah Blum

Deborah Blum uses The Poison Squad to investigate one Chemist’s Single Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century through a carefully framed biographical portrait. Its account follows central actors and turning points while showing how the story reflects questions in the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Sep 24, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780143111122