Food security in a global economy : veterinary medicine and public health /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | xii, 196 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7625224 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: A Note on Martin Kaplan: Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
- Preface
- Introduction: Setting the Scene
- I. The Changing Landscape for Veterinary Public Health
- 1. What Will the Future Bring, and How Can We Prepare for It?
- 2. Globalization: What Caused It, and How Will It End?
- 3. The Livestock Revolution and the Developing World
- 4. Technology, Innovation, Research, and Development
- 5. Animal Welfare in Livestock Production: Implications for Producers, Consumers, and Public Health
- 6. Animal Plagues: The Political and Economic Consequences of Nonzoonotic Animal Diseases
- II. The Food Industry
- 7. The Global Food Industry
- 8. Farming the Sea: The Revolution in Aquaculture
- 9. Creating Risk: Antibiotic Resistance
- III. Emerging Threats
- 10. The Changing Epidemiology of Avian Influenza
- 11. Wildlife Zoonoses: Emerging and Reemerging Zoonoses from Wildlife Reservoirs
- 12. Monkeypox: A Threat to the United States?
- 13. Bat Zoonoses: The Realities
- IV. National and Global Responses
- 14. International Efforts at Detection and Control
- 15. The Public Health Workforce
- 16. The Task Ahead
- Contributors
- Index
