Swann song: antibiotic regulation in British livestock production (1953–2006)
Antibiotics have played a significant yet ambivalent role in Western livestock husbandry. Mass introduced to agriculture to boost animal production and reduce feed consumption in the early 1950s, agricultural antibiotics were soon accused of selecting for bacterial resistance, causing residues and e...
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine
2018
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