Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 465 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0674736044
- 9780674736047
- United States Bureau of Animal Industry
- Communicable diseases in animals -- United States -- Prevention
- Livestock -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention
- Animals -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention
- Communicable diseases in animals -- United States -- Prevention -- Decision making
- Animal health
- Food -- Safety measures
- Animal Diseases -- history
- Disease Transmission, Infectious -- prevention & control
- Health Policy -- history
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- United States
- Santé animale
- Aliments -- Sécurité -- Mesures
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General
- Animal health
- Communicable diseases in animals -- Prevention
- Food -- Safety measures
- Livestock -- Diseases -- Prevention
- United States
- 636.089/69 23
- SF781 .O46 2015eb
- SF 623
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-446) and index.
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (DeGruyter platform, viewed February 25, 2016).
An enduring struggle -- 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.
Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections--border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs--turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy.
In English.
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