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  • Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease Control

Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease Control

  • 46.00€

Tags: Communicable diseases in animals, Livestock, United States, Prevention and Control, Food safety measures, Public health.


Over sixty percent of all infectious human diseases, including tuberculosis, influenza, cholera, and hundreds more, are shared with other vertebrate animals. Arresting Contagion tells the story of how early efforts to combat livestock infections turned the United States from a disease-prone nation into a world leader in controlling communicable diseases. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode show that many innovations devised in the fight against animal diseases, ranging from border control and food inspection to drug regulations and the creation of federal research labs, provided the foundation for modern food safety programs and remain at the heart of U.S. public health policy. 477 p.

Human & animal health/Public health
 

Authors expertises affiliations

  • Alan M. Olmstead, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics. University of California-Davis, Davis, CA (USA).
  • Paul W. Rhode, Professor of Economics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA).

     
  • Publication date (electronic format): 2015-09 - Harvard University Press.

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