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Author Cassidy, Angela, author.

Title Vermin, victims and disease : British debates over bovine tuberculosis and badgers / Angela Cassidy.

Publication Info. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Note Open access.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part One: CONTEXTS.- 1 Of Badgers, Bovines and Bacteria.- 2 How the Badger Became Tuberculous.- Part Two: REFRAMING BOVINE TB (c.1960-1995).- 3 Changing Veterinary Knowledge.- 4 Pest Control and Ecology.- 5 Protecting the Badger?.- Part Three: CONTESTING ANIMAL HEALTH (1996-PRESENT).- 6 Cutting the Cake of Science and Policy.- 7 Building a Public Controversy.- 8 Conclusion -- The Badgers Have Moved the Goalposts!
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2019).
Summary "Dr Cassidy draws pertinent general conclusions about generating policy and mediating the role of the expert in today's science-sceptic and increasingly polarised society ... It is both a useful and original contribution, specifically to the history of zoonotic disease policy, and policy history more generally."--Helen Bynum, Author of Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (2012) This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do about this complex problem have been the source of scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger protection between the 1970s and 1990s, before reintegrating them to investigate the recent public polarisation of the controversy. Finally it asks how we might move beyond the current impasse.-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks
Subject Tuberculosis in cattle -- Great Britain.
Tuberculosis in cattle -- Great Britain -- Prevention.
Mycobacterium bovis.
Badgers -- Control -- Great Britain.
Mycobacterium bovis. (OCoLC)fst01031298
Tuberculosis in cattle. (OCoLC)fst01158559
Tuberculosis in cattle -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01158563
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Other Form: Print version : 9783030191856
ISBN 9783030191863 (electronic book)
3030191869 (electronic book)
9783030191856 (hardcover)
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