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Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues - How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health (Hardcover)
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Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues - How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
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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.
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