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Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olmstead, Alan L., author.
- Rhode, Paul Webb, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases in animals--United States--Prevention.
- Communicable diseases in animals.
- Livestock--Diseases--United States--Prevention.
- Livestock.
- Animals--Diseases--United States--Prevention.
- Animals.
- Animal health.
- Food--Safety measures.
- Food.
- United States. Bureau of Animal Industry.
- United States.
- Animal Diseases--history.
- Animals--Diseases.
- Livestock--Diseases.
- Disease Transmission, Infectious--prevention & control.
- Health Policy--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Animal Diseases--history.
- United States.
- Disease Transmission, Infectious--prevention & control.
- Health Policy--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674728776
- 0674728777
- OCLC:
- 875999826
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