Antibiotic resistance, planetary health and the mimetic trap: a historical account of present-day sanitary, environmental and social crises.
The industrialization of food production over the past century has triggered a series of sanitary crises related to antibiotic resistance. In this article, I contend that to understand the radical transformation of animal farming and its effects on public health, we need to inquire into the historic...
| Published in: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 321 - 340 |
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