Vermin, Victims and Disease : : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers.

• Author: Cassidy, Angela.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Archives and Sources -- Archives Used and Referenced in This Text -- Other Archives, Libraries and Collections Used during This Research -- Interviews and Oral History Material -- Mass Media Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Part I: Contexts -- Chapter 1: Of Badgers, Bovines and Bacteria -- 1.1 Badgers, Cows, TB, Science and Policy: A Primer for the Perplexed -- 1.2 Knowing Animal Health in the Environment -- 1.3 Histories of Tuberculosis in Humans and Other Animals -- 1.4 The Great British Badger Debate -- 1.5 Vermin, Victims and Disease: An Overview -- Chapter 2: How the Badger Became Tuberculous -- 2.1 Animal Anxieties in the Early 1970s -- 2.2 Becoming Tuberculous: Understanding and Acting on Bovine TB in Wildlife -- A Dead Badger on a Farm -- 2.3 Following Badgers, Tracing Bacteria -- 2.4 A Change of Direction? -- 2.5 Looking, Seeing, Knowing and Acting -- Part II: Reframing Bovine TB (c. 1960-1995) -- Chapter 3: Changing Veterinary Knowledge -- 3.1 Animal Health and Cultures of Caring for Livestock -- 3.2 MAFF's 'Bovine Tuberculosis in Badgers' Research Programme -- 3.3 'An Objective Look' -- 3.4 Research Expansion, Policy Tinkering -- 3.5 Managing M. bovis Through Animal Health Care -- Chapter 4: Pest Control and Ecology -- 4.1 Ecological Science and the State -- 4.2 MAFF's Ecologists: Pest (Infestation) Control Laboratories -- 4.3 Defining and Redefining the Badger -- 4.4 Managing Badgers through Scientific Care -- Chapter 5: Protecting the Badger? -- 5.1 British Conservation and Animal Protection -- 5.2 Following, Understanding and Protecting Badgers -- 5.3 In Sickness and in Health? Caring for Tuberculous Badgers -- 5.4 Care, Expertise and Gender in Badger Protection -- 5.5 Cultures of Caring for and with Animals.

Part III: Contesting Animal Health (1996-Present) -- Chapter 6: Cutting the Cake of Science and Policy -- 6.1 Experts, Evidence and Policy -- 6.2 'A Proper Experimental Assessment' -- Perturbing Findings, Policy Recommendations -- 6.3 'Cutting the Cake' of Science and Policy: The Aftermath of the RBCT -- From 'Evidence-Based Policy' to 'Veterinary Advice': The Post 2010 Return to Badger Culling -- 6.4 Epistemic Rivalries in bTB Policy -- Chapter 7: Building a Public Controversy -- 7.1 UK Newspaper Coverage: Some Key Indicators -- 7.2 Agricultural Malaise or Environmental Risk? Media Framings of Badger/bTB -- 7.3 Constituting and Contesting Badgers, bTB and Culling -- 7.4 A Passing Storm? -- Chapter 8: The Badgers Have Moved the Goalposts! -- 8.1 TB in Humans, Other Animals and Environments -- 8.2 Wildlife Conflict and the Great British Badger Debate -- 8.3 Care as a Driver of Controversy -- 8.4 Expectations -- 8.5 Some Questions and Suggestions -- A Note on Archives and Sources -- Archival Sources Used and Directly Referenced in This Volume -- Other Archives, Libraries and Collections That Have Been Used in This Research -- Interviews and Oral History Material -- Bibliography -- Mass Media Sources -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index.