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.