Healing the herds : disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine / edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle.

Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, [2010], ©2010.

vi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Epizootic diseases in the Netherlands, 1713-2002 : veterinary science, agricultural policy, and public response / Peter A. Koolmees -- The now-opprobrious title of "horse doctor" : veterinarians and professional identity in late nineteenth-century America / Ann N. Greene -- Breeding cows, maximizing milk : British veterinarians and the livestock economy, 1930-50 / Abigail Woods -- Policing epizootics : legislation and administration during outbreaks of cattle plague in eighteenth-century Northern Germany as continuous crisis management / Dominik Hünniger -- For better or worse? The impact of the veterinarian service on the development of the agricultural society in Java (Indonesia) in the nineteenth century / Martine Barwegen -- Fighting rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886-1941 / Daniel F. Doeppers -- Diseases of equids in Southeast Asia, c.1800-c.1945 : apocalypse or progress? / William G. Clarence-Smith -- -

"They give me fever" : East Coast fever and other environmental impacts of the Maasai moves / Lotte Hughes -- Animal disease and veterinary administration in Trinidad and Tobago, 1879-1962 / Rita Pemberton -- Nineteenth-century Australian pastoralists and the origins of state veterinary services / John Fisher -- Holding water in bamboo buckets : agricultural science, livestock breeding, and veterinary medicine in colonial Manchuria / Robert John Perrins -- Sheep breeding in colonial Canterbury (New Zealand) : a practical response to the challenges of disease and economic change, 1850-1914 / Robert Peden -- Animal science and the representation of local breeds : looking into the sources of current characterization of Bororo zebu / Saverio Krèatli -- Kenya's cattle trade and the economics of empire, 1918-48 / David Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and index.