The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, 1850-1914

by Keir Waddington

Investigation of the complex issues surrounding the links between bovine tuberculosis and infected meat - with a contemporary resonance in the BSE scare.

By the late 1890s, the question of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and infected meat had become one of national importance, reflecting a national sense of fear. Although the extent of the threat to health proved uncertain, bovine TB hadcome to stand at the centre of debates about diseased meat and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843831937
• ISBN13: 9781843831938
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 6.3"