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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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New directions in the human-animal bond |
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New directions in the human-animal bond.
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Pt. I PROLOGUE -- 1. The Veterinary Schools of Europe -- 2. Edward Jenner: Zoologist, Physician, Pioneer -- 3. William Dick: From Farrier to Veterinarian in Edinburgh -- 4. The Science Giants of 1860: Pasteur, Virchow, and Darwin -- 5. Robert Koch: Game Change -- pt. II FARRIER TO VETERINARIAN -- 6. Emigrants West: Ohio Country, Iowa Territory, and Tejas -- 7. The Canadian Midwest: Divergence of Lower and Upper Canada -- 8. Pioneers in the Midwest Frontier: Physicians in Veterinary Practice -- 9. New Plagues, Civil War, and the United States Department of Agriculture -- 10. Agriculture and Veterinary Science in the Midwest -- pt. III PIONEERING VETERINARY EDUCATION -- 11. Urban East Versus Rural West: Montreal and New York Diss Toronto and Iowa -- 11. The Pioneer State Colleges: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cornell -- 13. Plagues and the Bureau of Animal Industry -- 14. Bacteriology in the Heardand -- 15. The 1890s: Horse Markets and Enrollments Drop -- pt. IV LIVESTOCK AND VETERINARIANS GO WEST -- 16. Private Veterinary Schools: Chicago, Kansas City, and Indianapolis -- 17. Public Veterinary Schools: The Second-Generation Pioneers -- 18. The Bureau of Animal Industry and Hog Cholera -- 19. Veterinary Education, Charles Stange, and the Flexner Report -- 20. World War I: Biowarfare, Prejudice, and the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps -- pt. V ASCENDANCE -- 21. Agricultural Depression Amidst a National Boom: The 1910s -- 12. 1929: Prelude to Bad Times -- 23. Public Health and Distrust of Government: The Tuberculin War -- 24. A Depression Paradox: Culture and Science -- 25. New Deal: Discoveries in Infectious Disease -- pt. VI DUTY REQUIRED -- 26. War: The Home Front -- 27. Veterinary Corps and Bioterror -- 28. Postwar Investigations of Enemy Biological Warfare -- 29. Prelude to the Science Revolution -- 30. The Atomic Age -- pt. VII TRANSFORMATION -- 31. New Programs, New Laboratories: Malaria, Polio, and New Viruses -- 32. Comparative Medicine: Models for Leukemia -- 33. Grassroots Mandates: The National Research Centers for Livestock Diseases -- 34. Old Plagues in the Wild: The National Wildlife Centers -- 35. New Plagues: Scrapie, Mad Cow Disease, and the Prion -- pt. VIII EPILOGUE -- 36. The Farm Crises of 1980-1995: Distrust of Science -- 37. The Gender Shift -- 38. Biopolitics -- 39. Bioterror, Anthrax, and the National Animal Health Networks -- 40. Anti-Science Scams and Keys to Progress. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
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Veterinary medicine -- United States -- History.
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Veterinary medicine -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History.
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Public health -- United States -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: CHEVILLE, NORMAN F. PIONEER SCIENCE AND THE GREAT PLAGUES. [Place of publication not identified] : PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021 1612496563 (OCoLC)1203136873 |
| ISBN |
9781612497020 (electronic book) |
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1612497020 (electronic book) |
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