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dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Angela
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-18 13:36:15
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T08:54:40Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T08:54:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1007285
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22876
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MZ Veterinary medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geographyen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherGreat Britain—History
dc.subject.otherMedicine—History
dc.subject.otherAnimal welfare
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental policy
dc.subject.otherHistory, Modern
dc.subject.otherMedical geography
dc.titleVermin, Victims and Disease
dc.title.alternativeBritish Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-19186-3
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.pages366
oapen.place.publicationCham
oapen.grant.number101540/A/13/Z


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