| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (xxiv, 366 pages)) : illustrations |
| 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! |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 8, 2020) |
| Subject |
Tuberculosis, Bovine -- prevention & control.
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Animal Culling.
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Cattle.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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Mustelidae.
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Badgers -- Control -- Great Britain
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Mycobacterium bovis.
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Tuberculosis in cattle -- Great Britain -- Prevention
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Tuberculosis in cattle -- Great Britain
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Mycobacterium bovis.
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Tuberculosis in cattle -- Prevention.
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Tuberculosis in cattle.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 |
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3030191869 |
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9783030191863 |
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