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Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine offers a new and exciting comparative approach to the complex interrelationships of microbes, markets, and medicine in the global economy. It draws upon fourteen case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through the nineteenth century engendered the spread of infectious diseases, sometimes with devastating consequences for indigenous pa... MORE

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Epizootic Diseases in the Netherlands, 1713-2002: Veterinary Science, Agricultural Policy, and Public Response	p. 19
The Now-Opprobrious Title of "Horse Doctor": Veterinarians and Professional Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America	p. 42
Breeding Cows, Maximizing Milk: British Veterinarians and the Livestock Economy, 1930-50	p. 59
Polking Epizootics: Legislation and Administration during Outbreaks of Cattle Plague in Eighteenth-Century Northern Germany as Continuous Crisis Management	p. 76
For Better or Worse?: The Impact of the Veterinarian Service on the Development of the Agricultural Society in Java (Indonesia) in the Nineteenth Century	p. 92
Fighting Rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886-1941	p. 108
Diseases of Equids in Southeast Asia, c. 1800-c. 1945: Apocalypse or Progress?	p. 129
"They Give Me Fever": East Coast Fever and Other Environmental Impacts of the Maasai Moves	p. 146
Animal Disease and Veterinary Administration in Trinidad and Tobago, 1879-1962	p. 163
Nineteenth-Century Australian Pastoralists and the Origins of State Veterinary Services	p. 180
Holding Water in Bamboo Buckets: Agricultural Science, Livestock Breeding, and Veterinary Medicine in Colonial Manchuria	p. 195
Sheep Breeding in Colonial Canterbury (New Zealand) A Practical Response to the Challenges of Disease and Economic Change, 1850-1914	p. 215
Animal Science and the Representation of Local Breeds: Looking into the Sources of Current Characterization of Bororo Zebu	p. 232
Kenya's Cattle Trade and the Economics of Empire, 1918-48	p. 250
Conclusion	p. 269
Appendix	p. 275
Select Bibliography	p. 281
Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 293
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Karen Brown is a senior research officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in Oxford, England. She has published a number of articles in journals of African studies, environmental studies, and the history of science.

Daniel Gilfoyle specializes in veterinary history in Africa and has published a number of articles on veterinary medicine in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He works at the National Archives in London.

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