Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine PDF

Healing The Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, And The Globalization Of Veterinary Medicine By Karen Brownand Daniel Gilfoyle

By Karen Brownand Daniel Gilfoyle

Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine offers a comparative historical analysis of the relationships between infectious disease, livestock economies, and the development of veterinary medicine in a global context. Drawing on fourteen case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and European and Japanese colonies, the book examines how nineteenth-century international animal trade contributed to the spread of infectious diseases and shaped pastoral societies.

The book explores how livestock epidemics influenced social order, state intervention, and agricultural intensification, affecting both animal and human health. It also traces changing concepts of disease control, from mass culling and quarantine to the emergence of germ theory, vaccination, and modern veterinary science. By examining the interaction of politics, economics, and science, the book provides insight into the historical foundations of animal disease management and the global expansion of veterinary medicine.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Epizootic Diseases in the Netherlands (1713–2002)
- Veterinary science, agricultural policy, and public response
The “Horse Doctor” and Veterinary Professional Identity
- Veterinarians in late nineteenth-century America
Breeding Cows and Maximizing Milk
- British veterinarians and the livestock economy (1930–1950)
Policing Epizootics
- Legislation and administration during cattle plague outbreaks in eighteenth-century northern Germany
The Impact of Veterinary Services in Colonial Java
- Agricultural development and veterinary intervention in nineteenth-century Indonesia
Fighting Rinderpest in the Philippines (1886–1941)
Diseases of Equids in Southeast Asia (c. 1800–1945)
- Apocalypse or progress?
East Coast Fever and Environmental Change
- Veterinary disease and Maasai movements
Animal Disease and Veterinary Administration in Trinidad and Tobago (1879–1962)
Australian Pastoralists and the Origins of State Veterinary Services
Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine in Colonial Manchuria
Sheep Breeding in Colonial Canterbury (New Zealand)
- Disease management and economic change (1850–1914)
Animal Science and the Representation of Local Breeds
- Characterization of Bororo Zebu
Kenya’s Cattle Trade and the Economics of Empire (1918–1948)
Conclusion
Appendix: Livestock Diseases
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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