Liquid materialities : a history of milk, science and the law / Peter Atkins

Author:: Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940-
Published:: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: xx, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Series:

Critical food studies

Contents:

Pt. I. Rematerializing Food History -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. A Material World -- 2. Daniel Schrumpf: A Trial by Instruments -- Pt. II. In Search of Milk -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. Seeking the Natural: Laboratories and the 'Knowability' of Milk -- 4. Expertise -- 5. Standards -- Pt. III. Disciplining Milk -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. Moralizing Milk -- 7. Policing the Natural -- 8. Legal Ontologies and the Performative Realm of the Law -- Pt. IV. Impurity and Danger -- Introduction to Part IV -- 9. Dirty Milk and the Ontology of 'Clean' -- 10. The Material Politics of Milk -- 11. Conclusion.

Summary:

"The material that we call milk is a food that has been revered and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its naturally variable composition and, in effect, redraw the boundaries between nature and society. In the name of quality, attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to impose norms about fat content, but these were always constrained by what is called here 'material resistance'. The book amounts to a new kind of food history that addresses the stuff in foodstuffs."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

9780754679219 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754679217 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754698197 (e-book)
075469819X (e-book)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-330) and index.

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