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03605aam a2200385 i 4500 001 352CDFDAAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210505010019 008 210316t20212021inua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781612496566 020 $a 1612496563 020 $a 9781612496429 020 $a 1612496423 035 $a (OCoLC)1241977229 040 $a WSN $b eng $e rda $c WSN $d OCLCO $d YDX $d ORE $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a SF622 C48x 2021 100 1 $a Cheville, Norman F., $d 1934- $e author. 245 10 $a Pioneer science and the great plagues : $b how microbes, war, and public health shaped animal health / $c Norman F. Cheville. 264 1 $a West Lafayette, Indiana : $b Purdue University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 357 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a New directions in the human-animal bond 504 $a Includes bibliographic references (pages 291-330) and index. 520 $a Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plaguesâanthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polioâwere conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and todayâs bioterror dangers. Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urban Philadelphia it came from medicine; similar differences occurred in Canada between Toronto and Montreal. As land-grant colleges were established after the American Civil War, individual states followed divergent pathways in supporting veterinary science. Some employed a trade school curriculum that taught agriculturalists to empirically treat animal diseases and others emphasized a curriculum tied to science. This pattern continued for a century, but today some institutions have moved back to the trade school philosophy. Avoiding lessons of the 1910 Flexner Report on medical education reform, university-associated veterinary schools are being approved that do not have control of their own veterinary hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutesâcomponents that are critical for training students in science. Underlying this change were twin idiosyncrasies of cultureâdisbelief in science and distrust of governmentâthat spawned scientology, creationism, anti-vaccination movements, and other anti-science scams. As new infectious plagues continue to arise, Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues details the strategies we learned defeating plagues from 1860 to 1960âand the essential role veterinary science played. To defeat the plagues of today it is essential we avoid the digital cocoon of disbelief in science and cultural stasis now threatening progress. 650 0 $a Veterinary medicine $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Veterinary medicine $z Canada $x History. 650 0 $a Veterinary medicine $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Communicable diseases in animals $x History. 650 0 $a Public health $z United States $x History. 830 0 $a New directions in the human-animal bond 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043230.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031706.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=352CDFDAAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search