Death in the pot : the impact of food poisoning on history / Morton Satin.

• Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- What evidence is there of foodborne diseases in antiquity? -- Bones and bones -- Evidence in teeth -- Coprolites -- Mummies -- Bog bodies -- The analysis of evidence -- The mass of evidence from historical accounts -- pt. 1. The ancient world -- ch. 1. The Hebrews and Egyptians (4000 B.C.E.-100 C.E.) -- Prehistory -- Revolution through evolution -- Ancient Egypt -- The Biblical record -- Event 1 : A tale of quail -- Event 2 : My asclepius is dragon -- ch. 2. The Greeks and Romans (1200 B.C.E.-500 C.E.) -- Event 3 : The gory that was Greece -- Event 4 : Beware of Greeks bearing honey -- Event 5 : Get the lead out -- Event 6 : When in doubt, assume the gout -- pt. 2. The Middle Ages -- ch. 3. The Middle Ages (500-1500 C.E.) -- Event 7 : There's fungus among us -- Event 8 : St. Anthony's fire -- pt. 3. Early modern -- ch. 4. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment (1300-1750 C.E.) -- Event 9 : In witch mold was Salem cast? -- Event 10 : What bugged little Louis.
• pt. 4. The modern era -- ch. 5. The Industrial Revolution (1750-1900 C.E.) -- Event 11 : Voyage of the damned -- from cans to cannibals! -- Event 12 : The staff of life or death? Hong Kong's esing bakery -- ch. 6. Modern times (1900 C.E.-present day) -- Sinclair's Jungle and the wiley FDA -- Event 13 : Typhoid Mary, quite contrary -- Event 14 : Ginger ails -- Event 15 : Mercury, the Mercury, the messenger of frauds -- Event 16 : The drain in Spain -- Event 17 : In vino veritox -- Event 18 : Fugu fish -- bonzai or zombie? -- Event 19 : The quick and the dead -- Event 20 : Bioterrorism and the food supply -- Event 21 : The politics of poison -- Epilogue -- Index.

Ämnesord

Diseases and history.  (LCSH)

Food poisoning  -- History. (LCSH)

Food contamination  -- History. (LCSH)

Food Contamination.  (MeSH)

Foodborne Diseases  -- history. (MeSH)

Lebensmittelvergiftung.  (swd)

Matförgiftning  -- historia (sao)

Mat  -- historia (sao)

Livsmedel  -- historia (sao)

Geschichte Anfänge-2005  (swd)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Vebg Förgiftningssjukdomar

Klassifikation

615.9 (DDC)

Vebg (kssb/8)