Screen LibraryArresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control /
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674728776 : 0674728777 |
| Index Number: | SF781 |
| CLC: | S851.3 |
| Call Number: | S851.3/O513 |
| Contents: | Livestock disease environment and industry dynamics -- The battle to create the bureau of animal industry -- The BAI in action : establishing the area eradication model -- Bad blood : deciphering Texas fever and confining its spread -- Contagions and crises : foot-and-mouth disease -- The hog cholera puzzle : controversy and discovery -- Trichinosis, trade, and food safety -- The benevolence of the butcher : the creation of federal meat inspection -- Bovine tuberculosis and the milk problem -- The eradication of Texas fever : conflict and cooperation -- An impossible undertaking : eradicating bovine tuberculosis -- Getting off the fix : hog cholera eradication -- The mirror of the past. |