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By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Find out more Skip Navigation Oxford Journals Contact Us My Basket My Account Social History of Medicine About This Journal Contact This Journal Subscriptions View Current Issue (Volume 29 Issue 4 November 2016) Archive Search Institution: :: Sign In as Personal Subscriber Oxford Journals Arts & Humanities Medicine & Health Social History of Medicine Volume 29 Issue 4 Pp. 866-868. Matthew Smith, Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy Matthew Smith , Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy , New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . Pp. 312 . $29.95/£21.95. ISBN 978 0 2311 6484 9 . Tilli Tansey Queen Mary, University of London t.tansey@qmul.ac.uk Allergy is a significant cause of contemporary morbidity and mortality. Recent UK figures show that the annual cost to the NHS of inpatient treatment of allergies is £68 million; hospital admissions have increased 500 per cent since 1990; and 6–8 per cent of children have a proven food allergy. 1 Food allergy is not a tidy topic. Although there have been attempts to package it neatly in precise medical language, these are inevitably of limited use in a field that embraces legal, commercial, political and environmental interests, in addition to the concerns and experiences of clinicians, scientists, patients and their families. It sits in a medical marketplace in which orthodox allergists and psychiatrists jostle with quack therapists and patient activists, and in which the medical word ‘allergy’, now in common parlance, can be used casually and/or inaccurately to cover not only a wide range of reactions to food, from simple food dislikes, to full blown, fatal, anaphylaxis, but also for any object, activity … (Full Text of this Article) « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Soc Hist Med (2016) 29 (4): 866-868. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkw050 First published online: May 7, 2016 » Extract Free Full Text (HTML) Free Full Text (PDF) Free All Versions of this Article: hkw050v1 29/4/866 most recent Classifications Book Review Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Google Scholar Articles by Tansey, T. 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