Research Catalog

Title

Healing the herds : disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine / edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle.

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Karen, 1964-
• Gilfoyle, Daniel, 1957-

Description

vi, 299 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history

Uniform Title

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.

Subjects

• Globalization
• Livestock > History
• Veterinary epidemiology > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780821418840 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 082141884X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780821418857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0821418858 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009037813

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library