Abigail Woods

A Manufactured Plague (eBook, ePUB)

The History of Foot-and-mouth Disease in Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter?This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows that, for over a century, FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow- damaging businesses and affecting international relations. Yet these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but were, rather, the product of the legislation used to control it, and in this sense FMD is a 'manufactured' plague rather than a natural one. A Manufactured Plague turns the spotlight on this process of manufacture, revealing a rich history beset by controversy, in which party politics, class relations, veterinary ambitions, agricultural practices, the priorities of farming and the meat trade, fears for national security and scientific progress all made FMD what it is today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136572951
• Artikelnr.: 38446137

Autorenporträt

Abigail Woods studied veterinary medicine at Cambridge University and history of medicine at Manchester University. She is currently Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University. Her specialist field is British veterinary history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Foot and Mouth Disease in 19th-century Britain: From Everyday Ailment to Animal Plague
The Politics of Plague: Home Rule for Ireland, 1912-1923
The Epidemics of 1922-1924
Effects on the Anglo-Argentine Meat Trade, 1924-1939
The Science, 1912-1958
The 1951-1952 Vaccination Controversy
The 1967-1968 Epidemic
Foot and Mouth Disease, 2001
Conclusion: Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain, 1839-2001 - Lessons Learned?
Notes
References
Index