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The Pasteurized State: Milk, Health and the Government of Risk (2011)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 35, no. 2-3
Issue: 2 - 3
Pages: 107-115
Publication date: 2011
Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2011.06.004

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on food history

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Pasteurization Food industry and trade Food and foods Medicine and government Public policy Food safety Public health Political activists and activism 20th century United States Sabin, Florence Rena

In the late 1940s, Florence Sabin, a retired professor of medicine, returned to her home in Colorado to launch a massive public health campaign. Seeing filthy milk as an important vector of disease, she struggled not just pasteurized milk, but a pasteurized state government that was capable of regulating the milk industry. In the process, she brought managerialism into public health by fighting against the political machines and introducing Robert McNamara's systems analysis into government for the first time. Sabin's innovation, which united business, government and public health in new ways, transformed the way that public health is managed even today.

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