Healing the herds
Subtitle: disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine
By: edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle.
Contributors: Brown, Karen, 1964-; Gilfoyle, Daniel, 1957-
Series: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history; Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780821418840; 9780821418857
Subjects: Veterinary epidemiology -- History; Livestock -- History; Globalization; Animal Husbandry -- history; Disease Outbreaks -- veterinary; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Veterinary Medicine -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epizootic diseases in the Netherlands, 1713-2002 : veterinary science, agricultural policy, and public response / Peter A. Koolmees; title: The now-opprobrious title of "horse doctor" : veterinarians and professional identity in late nineteenth-century America / Ann N. Greene; title: Breeding cows, maximizing milk : British veterinarians and the livestock economy, 1930-50 / Abigail Woods; title: Policing epizootics : legislation and administration during outbreaks of cattle plague in eighteenth-century Northern Germany as continuous crisis management / Dominik Hünniger; title: For better or worse? The impact of the veterinarian service on the development of the agricultural society in Java (Indonesia) in the nineteenth century / Martine Barwegen; title: Fighting rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886-1941 / Daniel F. Doeppers; title: Diseases of equids in Southeast Asia, c.1800-c.1945 : apocalypse or progress? / William G. Clarence-Smith; title: "They give me fever" : East Coast fever and other environmental impacts of the Maasai moves / Lotte Hughes; title: Animal disease and veterinary administration in Trinidad and Tobago, 1879-1962 / Rita Pemberton; title: Nineteenth-century Australian pastoralists and the origins of state veterinary services / John Fisher; title: Holding water in bamboo buckets : agricultural science, livestock breeding, and veterinary medicine in colonial Manchuria / Robert John Perrins; title: Sheep breeding in colonial Canterbury (New Zealand) : a practical response to the challenges of disease and economic change, 1850-1914 / Robert Peden; title: Animal science and the representation of local breeds : looking into the sources of current characterization of Bororo zebu / Saverio Kretli; title: Kenya's cattle trade and the economics of empire, 1918-48 / David Anderson.