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Healing the Herds - Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine (Hardcover)
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Healing the Herds - Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Ecology and History
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"Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the
Globalization of Veterinary Medicine" offers a new and
exciting
comparative approach to the complex interrelationships of microbes,
markets, and medicine in the global economy. It draws upon fourteen
case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European
and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the
international trade in animals through the nineteenth century
engendered the spread of infectious diseases, sometimes with
devastating consequences for indigenous pastoral societies.
At different times and across much of the globe, livestock
epidemics have challenged social order and provoked state
interventions, which were sometimes opposed by pastoralists. The
intensification of agriculture has transformed environments, with
consequences for animal and human health. But the last two
centuries have also witnessed major changes in the way societies
have conceptualized diseases and sought to control them. The rise
of germ theories and the discovery of vaccines against some
infections made it possible to move beyond the blunt tools of
animal culls and restrictive quarantines of the past. Nevertheless,
these older methods have remained important to strategies of
control and prevention, as demonstrated during the recent outbreak
of foot and mouth disease in Britain in 2001.
From the late nineteenth century, advances in veterinary
technologies afforded veterinary scientists a new professional
status and allowed them to wield greater political influence. In
the European and Japanese colonies, state support for biomedical
veterinary science often led to coercive policies for managing the
livestock economies of the colonized peoples. In western Europe and
North America, public responses to veterinary interventions were
often unenthusiastic and reflected a latent distrust of outside
interference and state regulation. Politics, economics, and science
inform these essays on the history of animal diseases and the
expansion in veterinary medicine.
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