Rinderpest Campaigns - A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

This book uses the history of the struggle to eradicate rinderpest to expand our understanding of development and international relations in the twentieth century. It highlights the vital role that UN agencies played in development during the twentieth century, focusing on foreign relations and diplomatic history and global health policy.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Rinderpest and the origins of international vooperation for disease control; 2. GIR-1: rinderpest in World War II; 3. 'Freedom from want': UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns; 4. The machinery of development: FAO's rinderpest campaigns; 5. Back to Grosse Île: biological warfare in the postwar world; 6. 'Freedom from rinderpest'; Conclusion.

About the author

Amanda Kay McVety is Associate Professor of History at Miami University. She is the author of Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) and has published articles in the journals Diplomatic History and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Summary

This book uses the history of the struggle to eradicate rinderpest to expand our understanding of development and international relations in the twentieth century. It highlights the vital role that UN agencies played in development during the twentieth century, focusing on foreign relations and diplomatic history and global health policy.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Kay McVety, Amanda Kay (Miami University) Mcvety, McVety Amanda Kay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108434065
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43406-5
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Global and International History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Veterinary medicine: diseases and therapeutics, Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases & therapeutics