A manufactured plague : the history of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain / by Abigail Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Abigail, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foot-and-mouth disease--Great Britain--History.

Foot-and-mouth disease.

Picornavirus infections--Great Britain--History.

Picornavirus infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : EARTHSCAN, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter?This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows that, for over a century, FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow- damaging businesses and affecting international relations. Yet these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but were, rather, the

Contents:

A Manufactured Plague? The History of Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Foot and Mouth Disease in 19th-century Britain: From Everyday Ailment to Animal Plague; FMD strikes; John Gamgee and the diseased meat problem; The cattle plague epidemic, 1865-1867; FMD becomes a plague; Chapter 2 The Politics of Plague: Home Rule for Ireland, 1912-1923; The Irish question; Getting to grips with FMD; Chapter 3 The Epidemics of 1922-1924; Overview; The Cheshire experience, 1923-1924

A country under siegeResolution and aftermath; Chapter 4 Effects on the Anglo-Argentine Meat Trade, 1924-1939; The rise of the international meat trade; Suspicions aroused?; The Argentine reaction; Twisted science; Chapter 5 The Science, 1912-1958; The birth of scientific medicine?; Starting out: FMD research in Britain and Europe up to 1924; Doctors, vets and the purpose of scientific enquiry; Keeping FMD out, 1924-1938; A wartime threat; The Cold War and biological weapons research; Chapter 6 The 1951-1952 Vaccination Controversy; FMD returns; Calls to vaccinate; The ministry stands firm

The dispute continuesThe Gowers Committee of Inquiry; Chapter 7 The 1967-1968 Epidemic; Setting the scene; The view from the ground; The vaccination question; To import or not to import? The meat question; Post-mortem and aftermath; Chapter 8 Foot and Mouth Disease, 2001; Fighting FMD, 1968-2000; Epidemic, 2001; Conclusion: Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain, 1839-2001 - Lessons Learned?; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-200) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-57295-3

1-136-57296-1

1-280-47490-4

9786610474905

1-84977-030-1

600-00-0036-7

1-4175-8317-7

9781849770309

OCLC:

58530874