Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

x, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Livestock disease environment and industry dynamics -- The battle to create the bureau of animal industry -- The BAI in action : establishing the area eradication model -- Bad blood : deciphering Texas fever and confining its spread -- Contagions and crises : foot-and-mouth disease -- The hog cholera puzzle : controversy and discovery -- Trichinosis, trade, and food safety -- The benevolence of the butcher : the creation of federal meat inspection -- Bovine tuberculosis and the milk problem -- The eradication of Texas fever : conflict and cooperation -- An impossible undertaking : eradicating bovine tuberculosis -- Getting off the fix : hog cholera eradication -- The mirror of the past.