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A manufactured plague [electronic resource] : the history of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain / by Abigail Woods.

By: Woods, Abigail, 1972-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Sterling, VA : EARTHSCAN, 2004General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-200) and index.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9781849770309 (electronic bk.); 1849770301 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Foot-and-mouth disease -- Great Britain -- History | Foot-and-mouth diseaseGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 636.089/458 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Foot and Mouth Disease in 19th-century Britain; Chapter 2: The Politics of Plague; Chapter 3: The Epidemics of 1922-1924; Chapter 4: Effects on the Anglo-Argentine Meat Trade, 1924-1939; Chapter 5: The Science, 1912-1958; Chapter 6: The 1951-1952 Vaccination Controversy; Chapter 7: The 1967-1968 Epidemic; Chapter 8: Foot and Mouth Disease, 2001; Conclusion: Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain, 1839-2001 -- Lessons Learned?; Notes; References; Index; Plates.
Summary: 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 produc.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-200) and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Foot and Mouth Disease in 19th-century Britain; Chapter 2: The Politics of Plague; Chapter 3: The Epidemics of 1922-1924; Chapter 4: Effects on the Anglo-Argentine Meat Trade, 1924-1939; Chapter 5: The Science, 1912-1958; Chapter 6: The 1951-1952 Vaccination Controversy; Chapter 7: The 1967-1968 Epidemic; Chapter 8: Foot and Mouth Disease, 2001; Conclusion: Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain, 1839-2001 -- Lessons Learned?; Notes; References; Index; Plates.

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 produc.

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