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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
Description
1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps.

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Series
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history [More in this series]
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During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine brings together case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through th.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version record.
ISBN
  • 9780821443101 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0821443100 ((electronic bk.))
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