{"product_id":"another-persons-poison-a-history-of-food-allergy-9780231164856","title":"Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy","description":"To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Person's Poison\u003c\/i\u003e parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. For most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others believed that allergies were psychosomatic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book traces the trajectory of this debate and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Are rising allergy rates purely the result of effective lobbying and a booming industry built on self-diagnosis and expensive remedies? Or should physicians become more flexible in their approach to food allergies and more careful in their diagnoses? Exploring the issue from scientific, political, economic, social, and patient-centered perspectives, this book is the first to engage fully with the history of a major modern affliction, illuminating society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231164856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Smith is professor of history at the University of Strathclyde's Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eHyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and he is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDeinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39988422541427,"sku":"9.78023E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3a518c5f-ab73-47ba-9d36-85abe942b885.jpg?v=1649771500","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/another-persons-poison-a-history-of-food-allergy-9780231164856","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}