Infectious milk: Issues of pathogenic certainty within ideational regimes and their biopolitical implications

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 530-541

  Speake, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; British Congress on Tuberculosis; Ideational regime; Inferential networks of knowledge; Koch; Milk; Nutritional equivalency; Ontario; Ontology; Pasteurisation; Public Health Act of 1938; Scientific uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; FOOD CONTROL; GERM THEORY OF DISEASE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PASTEURIZATION; POLITICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERM THEORY OF DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MILK; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; ONTARIO; PASTEURIZATION; POLITICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 82555165056     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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