List of Abbreviations
1. The Sound of Coughing Pigs
Part I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured
Hazards, 1949-1967
2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public
3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm
4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDA
Part II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969
5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public
6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming
7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in Britain
Part III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013
8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and
Consumer Solutions
9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms
10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA Power
Part IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018
11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public
Sphere
12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British
Farming
13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
CLAAS KIRCHHELLE (DPhil, Oxon) is a historian at the University of Oxford in the UK. His award-winning research explores the history of antibiotics and the development of modern risk perceptions, microbial surveillance, and international drug regulation.
"Detailed, ambitious, and enormously capable of explaining the
economic, political, industrial, and agricultural cultures relevant
to the use of antibiotics in the production of animals for human
consumption. Kirchhelle's book is very useful [and] a very
interesting contribution on the trajectory of consumer society."—
María Jesús Santesmases, Dynamis
"Antibiotics fueled a great leap forward in food production in the
twentieth century, but the price of that progress in terms of
potential drug resistant infections was known from the
start. This timely historical analysis shows us why previous
warnings went unheeded and, in the current climate of concern over
a post-antibiotic future, how a history of public discourse can
provide salient lessons for one this century's most pressing
issues."— Steve Hinchliffe, University of Exeter, author of
Pathological Lives
"This is an impressive, well-researched, and crucial contribution
to the histories of science, technology, medicine, agriculture and
policymaking. In the context of our current moment, it helps
illuminate the importance and cultural specificity of risk
communication work in the wake of both accelerated and slow
building health crises."— The English Historical Review
"Kirchhelle reveals both the local contexts and the global
consequences of the historical relationship between antibiotics and
food production. Beautifully written and exhaustively
researched, this is a crucial work for understanding how we
evaluate and react to 'risks' more broadly." — Scott Podolsky,
Harvard Medical School, author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform,
Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Ratio
"This is a great book! Essential reading for anyone concerned
about the rise in antibiotics and resistance: Kirchhelle's
carefully researched text reveals the back-stories of antibiotics
and farming."— Clare Chandler, Professor in Medical Anthropology,
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
"With Pyrrhic Progress, Kirchhelle is delivering on its promise to
provide the first detailed, and often thrilling, historiographical
analysis of the use of antibiotics in animal health. If we may be
surprised at the choice of leaving aside international
organizations - the three 'sisters' that are the WHO (World Health
Organization), the FAO and the OIE (Word organization for animal
health) having played an important role - this absence ultimately
opens up new horizons for social scientists interested in
veterinary antibiotics and AMR. For them, as for those involved in
the field more generally, this book promises to become an essential
reference."— Études Rurales
"A thorough, critical review of the use of antimicrobials in
the US and British agricultural industries since the turn of the
20th century, examining the effects on production volume and
quality from the perspective of three spheres of interest:
agricultural. regulatory, and public....Highly recommended."—
Choice
"The meticulous work done by Kirchhelle is certainly commendable:
the book stimulates the reader imagination for developing further
stories and historical investigations of farmed antibiotics that
would be more-than-Western, more-than-elitist and more-than-human."
— Camille Bellet, Agricultural History Review
"Provides crucial insight into the historical complexity of risk
regimes and their consequences with regard to antibiotic use in
livestock farming."— Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Pyrrhic Progress is an excellent work of scholarship that
makes important, path-breaking contributions to the history of
agriculture, pharmaceuticals, politics, and
policymaking in the United States and Britain in the
post-World War II era. The connection between guarding against and
preparing for antimicrobial resistance and climate change is
fantastic, and no other work has examined these important
issues as exhaustively."— Kendra Smith-Howard, author of Pure
and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
"Kirchhelle's study achieves a considerable and important feat,
adding an innovative comprehensive framework, which integrates the
production and perception of risks across human and animal medicine
as well as across two key countries, to the historiography of
antibiotics, technological consequences, and risks."— Lucas M.
Mueller, Technology and Culture
"Provides a much-needed and painstakingly researched history of the
nonhuman use of antibiotics in live‐ stock production and the
professional turf wars and policy debates that have followed their
use in farming since the 1940s....Pyrrhic Progress adds to a
growing literature on the chemical revolution that has trans‐
formed modern agriculture and the environment more broadly. It adds
to a vibrant literature on animal studies which is bringing down
conceptual walls that falsely divide the history of humans from
that of other animals."— H-Net
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