Healing the herds : disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine /

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Imprint:Athens : Ohio University Press, c2010.
Description:vi, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8059187
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Other authors / contributors:Brown, Karen, 1964-
Gilfoyle, Daniel, 1957-
ISBN:9780821418840 (cloth : alk. paper)
082141884X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780821418857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821418858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Epizootic diseases in the Netherlands, 1713-2002 : veterinary science, agricultural policy, and public response / Peter A. Koolmees
  • The now-opprobrious title of "horse doctor" : veterinarians and professional identity in late nineteenth-century America / Ann N. Greene
  • Breeding cows, maximizing milk : British veterinarians and the livestock economy, 1930-50 / Abigail Woods
  • Policing epizootics : legislation and administration during outbreaks of cattle plague in eighteenth-century Northern Germany as continuous crisis management / Dominik Hünniger
  • 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
  • Fighting rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886-1941 / Daniel F. Doeppers
  • Diseases of equids in Southeast Asia, c.1800-c.1945 : apocalypse or progress? / William G. Clarence-Smith
  • "They give me fever" : East Coast fever and other environmental impacts of the Maasai moves / Lotte Hughes
  • Animal disease and veterinary administration in Trinidad and Tobago, 1879-1962 / Rita Pemberton
  • Nineteenth-century Australian pastoralists and the origins of state veterinary services / John Fisher
  • Holding water in bamboo buckets : agricultural science, livestock breeding, and veterinary medicine in colonial Manchuria / Robert John Perrins
  • Sheep breeding in colonial Canterbury (New Zealand) : a practical response to the challenges of disease and economic change, 1850-1914 / Robert Peden
  • Animal science and the representation of local breeds : looking into the sources of current characterization of Bororo zebu / Saverio Krèatli
  • Kenya's cattle trade and the economics of empire, 1918-48 / David Anderson.