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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterinary medicine--United States--History.

Veterinary medicine.

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

Public health--United States--History.

Public health.

History.

Veterinary medicine--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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. 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." -- Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 i860: 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:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 291-330) and index.

ISBN:

1612496423

9781612496429

1612496563

9781612496566

OCLC:

1241977229