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Arresting Contagion

Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control

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ISBN 9780674728776

Publication Date: 02/09/2015

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  • List of Figures and Tables*
  • 1. An Enduring Struggle
  • 2. Livestock Disease Environment and Industry Dynamics
  • 3. The Battle to Create the Bureau of Animal Industry
  • 4. The BAI in Action: Establishing the Area Eradication Model
  • 5. Bad Blood: Deciphering Texas Fever and Confining Its Spread
  • 6. Contagions and Crises: Foot-and-Mouth Disease
  • 7. The Hog Cholera Puzzle: Controversy and Discovery
  • 8. Trichinosis, Trade, and Food Safety
  • 9. The Benevolence of the Butcher: The Creation of Federal Meat Inspection
  • 10. Bovine Tuberculosis and the Milk Problem
  • 11. The Eradication of Texas Fever: Conflict and Cooperation
  • 12. An Impossible Undertaking: Eradicating Bovine Tuberculosis
  • 13. Getting Off the Fix: Hog Cholera Eradication
  • 14. The Mirror of the Past
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • * Figures and Tables
    • Figures
      • 2.1 Value of U.S. meat and animal fats and total domestic exports, 1870–1914
      • 3.1 A House divided over the Bureau of Animal Industry
      • 4.1 Tracing the spread of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, 1884
      • 4.2 Mapping the “mess” in Chicago, 1886
      • 4.3 Adoption of state livestock sanitary offices
      • 5.1 Area quarantined for Texas fever, 1891
      • 6.1 Area quarantined for foot-and-mouth disease, 1914–1916
      • 6.2 Culling cattle near Merced, California, 1924
      • 6.3 Disinfecting automobiles and people near Merced, California, 1924
      • 7.1 Swine deaths due to hog cholera, 1884–1940
      • 8.1 Trichinoscopy in Chicago, circa 1900
      • 9.1 A small section of the Union Stock Yards and Packingtown, 1905
      • 9.2 Images of bovine and human actinomycosis cases, circa 1890
      • 9.3 Federal meat inspection: (A) cattle and (B) swine
      • 9.4 Number of establishments and cities with federal meat inspection, fiscal year 1891–1915
      • 10.1 Tuberculin test results in Bellevue, Washington, January 16–17, 1914
      • 10.2 Extent of milk pasteurization by city size, 1902–1936
      • 10.3 Justice prevails
      • 10.4 The Elgin district: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties
      • 11.1 Cattle dipping: “Canals to Progress”
      • 11.2 Area quarantined for Texas fever, 1906–1937
      • 11.3 Share of land area (covered in 1906) released from quarantine, Louisiana and United States, 1906–1943
      • 11.4 Sheep and cattle scab quarantine areas
      • 12.1 Tuberculin tests given annually, 1917–1953
      • 12.2 Extent of bovine tuberculosis by county, 1922–1937
      • 12.3 Extent of bovine tuberculosis infection among cattle, 1917–1942
      • 12.4 Declaration of martial law in Iowa, 1931
    • Tables
      • 2.1 Selected advances in the germ theory of disease to 1900
      • 2.2 European restrictions affecting U.S. trade in animals and meat products
      • 3.1 Composition of Congress, 1879–1897
      • 4.1 Progress of the Bureau of Animal Industry campaign against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
      • 9.1 Federal livestock and meat inspection laws and regulations

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