Healing the Herds - Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary

Informationen zum Autor Karen Brown is currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine! University of Oxford. She has published a number of papers that deal with environmental and veterinary history in South Africa. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Karen (EDT)/ Gilfoyle Brown
• Assisted by: Karen Brown (Editor), Daniel Gilfoyle (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2009
• EAN: 9780821418840
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1884-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Ecology & History; Ohio University Press Series i; Series in Ecology and History; Series in Ecology and History
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Veterinary medicine