Pioneer science and the great plagues : how microbes, war, and public health shaped animal health

Pioneer science and the great plagues : how microbes, war, and public health shaped animal health /

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...

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Author / Contributor: Cheville, Norman F., 1934- (Author)
Imprint: [West Lafayette, Indiana] : Purdue University Press, [2021]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Veterinary medicine > United States > History.
Veterinary medicine > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Public health > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Series:New directions in the human-animal bond.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I PROLOGUE
  • 1. The Veterinary Schools of Europe
  • 2. Edward Jenner: Zoologist, Physician, Pioneer
  • 3. William Dick: From Farrier to Veterinarian in Edinburgh
  • 4. The Science Giants of 1860: Pasteur, Virchow, and Darwin
  • 5. Robert Koch: Game Change
  • part II FARRIER TO VETERINARIAN
  • 6. Emigrants West: Ohio Country, Iowa Territory, and Tejas
  • 7. The Canadian Midwest: Divergence of Lower and Upper Canada
  • 8. Pioneers in the Midwest Frontier: Physicians in Veterinary Practice
  • 9. New Plagues, Civil War, and the United States Department of Agriculture
  • 10. Agriculture and Veterinary Science in the Midwest
  • part III PIONEERING VETERINARY EDUCATION
  • 11. Urban East Versus Rural West: Montreal and New York Diss Toronto and Iowa
  • 11. The Pioneer State Colleges: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cornell
  • 13. Plagues and the Bureau of Animal Industry
  • 14. Bacteriology in the Heardand
  • 15. The 1890s: Horse Markets and Enrollments Drop
  • part IV LIVESTOCK AND VETERINARIANS GO WEST
  • 16. Private Veterinary Schools: Chicago, Kansas City, and Indianapolis
  • 17. Public Veterinary Schools: The Second-Generation Pioneers
  • 18. The Bureau of Animal Industry and Hog Cholera
  • 19. Veterinary Education, Charles Stange, and the Flexner Report
  • 20. World War I: Biowarfare, Prejudice, and the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps
  • part V ASCENDANCE
  • 21. Agricultural Depression Amidst a National Boom: The 1910s
  • 12. 1929: Prelude to Bad Times
  • 23. Public Health and Distrust of Government: The Tuberculin War
  • 24. A Depression Paradox: Culture and Science
  • 25. New Deal: Discoveries in Infectious Disease
  • part VI DUTY REQUIRED
  • 26. War: The Home Front
  • 27. Veterinary Corps and Bioterror
  • 28. Postwar Investigations of Enemy Biological Warfare
  • 29. Prelude to the Science Revolution
  • 30. The Atomic Age
  • part VII TRANSFORMATION
  • 31. New Programs, New Laboratories: Malaria, Polio, and New Viruses
  • 32. Comparative Medicine: Models for Leukemia
  • 33. Grassroots Mandates: The National Research Centers for Livestock Diseases
  • 34. Old Plagues in the Wild: The National Wildlife Centers
  • 35. New Plagues: Scrapie, Mad Cow Disease, and the Prion
  • part VIII EPILOGUE
  • 36. The Farm Crises of 1980-1995: Distrust of Science
  • 37. The Gender Shift
  • 38. Biopolitics
  • 39. Bioterror, Anthrax, and the National Animal Health Networks
  • 40. Anti-Science Scams and Keys to Progress.

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