Arresting Contagion : : Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control /

Arresting Contagion : : Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control / / Alan L. Olmstead.

Over sixty percent of all infectious human diseases, including tuberculosis, influenza, cholera, and hundreds more, are shared with other vertebrate animals. Arresting Contagion tells the story of how early efforts to combat livestock infections turned the United States from a disease-prone nation i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
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Olmstead, Alan L.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p.) :; 11 halftones, 15 maps, 9 graphs, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • 1. An Enduring Struggle
  • 2. Livestock Disease Environment and Industry Dynamics
  • 3. The Battle to Create the Bureau of Animal Industry
  • 4. The BAI in Action.
  • 5. Bad Blood.
  • 6. Contagions and Crises.
  • 7. The Hog Cholera Puzzle.
  • 8. Trichinosis, Trade, and Food Safety
  • 9. The Benevolence of the Butcher
  • 10. Bovine Tuberculosis and the Milk Problem
  • 11. The Eradication of Texas Fever
  • 12. An Impossible Undertaking
  • 13. Getting Off the Fix
  • 14. The Mirror of the Past
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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