Counting Cases About Milk, Our “Most Nearly Perfect” Food, 1860-1940.
At the turn of the 20th century, as more people in the United States started moving to urban areas, the quality of the milk supply became one of the preeminent public health challenges of the day and a centerpiece of the Progressive agenda. Governments passed ordinances and statutes to safeguard the...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 51 - 112 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2002
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