Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health / Norman F. Cheville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheville, Norman F., 1934- author.

Series:

New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond

New directions in the human-animal bond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterinary medicine--Study and teaching.

Veterinary medicine.

Public health.

Public health--United States--History.

Veterinary medicine--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Veterinary medicine--United States--History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Purdue University Press 2021

[West Lafayette, Indiana] : Purdue University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues-anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio-were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and today's bioterror dangers. Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urban Philadelphia it came from medicine; similar differences occurred in Canada between Toronto and Montreal. As land-grant colleges were established after the American Civil War, individual states followed divergent pathways in supporting veterinary science. Some employed a trade school curriculum that taught agriculturalists to empirically treat animal diseases and others emphasized a curriculum tied to science. This pattern continued for a century, but today some institutions have moved back to the trade school philosophy. Avoiding lessons of the 1910 Flexner Report on medical education reform, university-associated veterinary schools are being approved that do not have control of their own veterinary hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutes-components that are critical for training students in science. Underlying this change were twin idiosyncrasies of culture-disbelief in science and distrust of government-that spawned scientology, creationism, anti-vaccination movements, and other anti-science scams. As new infectious plagues continue to arise, Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues details the strategies we learned defeating plagues from 1860 to 1960-and the essential role veterinary science played. To defeat the plagues of today it is essential we avoid the digital cocoon of disbelief in science and cultural stasis now threatening progress.

Contents:

pt. I PROLOGUE

1. The Veterinary Schools of Europe

2. Edward Jenner: Zoologist, Physician, Pioneer

3. William Dick: From Farrier to Veterinarian in Edinburgh

4. The Science Giants of 1860: Pasteur, Virchow, and Darwin

5. Robert Koch: Game Change

pt. II FARRIER TO VETERINARIAN

6. Emigrants West: Ohio Country, Iowa Territory, and Tejas

7. The Canadian Midwest: Divergence of Lower and Upper Canada

8. Pioneers in the Midwest Frontier: Physicians in Veterinary Practice

9. New Plagues, Civil War, and the United States Department of Agriculture

10. Agriculture and Veterinary Science in the Midwest

pt. III PIONEERING VETERINARY EDUCATION

11. Urban East Versus Rural West: Montreal and New York Diss Toronto and Iowa

11. The Pioneer State Colleges: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cornell

13. Plagues and the Bureau of Animal Industry

14. Bacteriology in the Heardand

15. The 1890s: Horse Markets and Enrollments Drop

pt. IV LIVESTOCK AND VETERINARIANS GO WEST

16. Private Veterinary Schools: Chicago, Kansas City, and Indianapolis

17. Public Veterinary Schools: The Second-Generation Pioneers

18. The Bureau of Animal Industry and Hog Cholera

19. Veterinary Education, Charles Stange, and the Flexner Report

20. World War I: Biowarfare, Prejudice, and the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps

pt. V ASCENDANCE

21. Agricultural Depression Amidst a National Boom: The 1910s

12. 1929: Prelude to Bad Times

23. Public Health and Distrust of Government: The Tuberculin War

24. A Depression Paradox: Culture and Science

25. New Deal: Discoveries in Infectious Disease

pt. VI DUTY REQUIRED

26. War: The Home Front

27. Veterinary Corps and Bioterror

28. Postwar Investigations of Enemy Biological Warfare

29. Prelude to the Science Revolution

30. The Atomic Age

pt. VII TRANSFORMATION

31. New Programs, New Laboratories: Malaria, Polio, and New Viruses

32. Comparative Medicine: Models for Leukemia

33. Grassroots Mandates: The National Research Centers for Livestock Diseases

34. Old Plagues in the Wild: The National Wildlife Centers

35. New Plagues: Scrapie, Mad Cow Disease, and the Prion

pt. VIII EPILOGUE

36. The Farm Crises of 1980-1995: Distrust of Science

37. The Gender Shift

38. Biopolitics

39. Bioterror, Anthrax, and the National Animal Health Networks

40. Anti-Science Scams and Keys to Progress.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61249-658-X

1-61249-756-X

1-61249-702-0

OCLC:

1240236794

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access