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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cassidy, Angela.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • A Note on Archives and Sources
  • Archives Used and Referenced in This Text
  • Other Archives, Libraries and Collections Used during This Research
  • Interviews and Oral History Material
  • Mass Media Sources
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • About the Author
  • Part I: Contexts
  • Chapter 1: Of Badgers, Bovines and Bacteria
  • 1.1 Badgers, Cows, TB, Science and Policy: A Primer for the Perplexed
  • 1.2 Knowing Animal Health in the Environment
  • 1.3 Histories of Tuberculosis in Humans and Other Animals
  • 1.4 The Great British Badger Debate
  • 1.5 Vermin, Victims and Disease: An Overview
  • Chapter 2: How the Badger Became Tuberculous
  • 2.1 Animal Anxieties in the Early 1970s
  • 2.2 Becoming Tuberculous: Understanding and Acting on Bovine TB in Wildlife
  • A Dead Badger on a Farm
  • 2.3 Following Badgers, Tracing Bacteria
  • 2.4 A Change of Direction?
  • 2.5 Looking, Seeing, Knowing and Acting
  • Part II: Reframing Bovine TB (c. 1960-1995)
  • Chapter 3: Changing Veterinary Knowledge
  • 3.1 Animal Health and Cultures of Caring for Livestock
  • 3.2 MAFF's 'Bovine Tuberculosis in Badgers' Research Programme
  • 3.3 'An Objective Look'
  • 3.4 Research Expansion, Policy Tinkering
  • 3.5 Managing M. bovis Through Animal Health Care
  • Chapter 4: Pest Control and Ecology
  • 4.1 Ecological Science and the State
  • 4.2 MAFF's Ecologists: Pest (Infestation) Control Laboratories
  • 4.3 Defining and Redefining the Badger
  • 4.4 Managing Badgers through Scientific Care
  • Chapter 5: Protecting the Badger?
  • 5.1 British Conservation and Animal Protection
  • 5.2 Following, Understanding and Protecting Badgers
  • 5.3 In Sickness and in Health? Caring for Tuberculous Badgers
  • 5.4 Care, Expertise and Gender in Badger Protection
  • 5.5 Cultures of Caring for and with Animals.
  • Part III: Contesting Animal Health (1996-Present)
  • Chapter 6: Cutting the Cake of Science and Policy
  • 6.1 Experts, Evidence and Policy
  • 6.2 'A Proper Experimental Assessment'
  • Perturbing Findings, Policy Recommendations
  • 6.3 'Cutting the Cake' of Science and Policy: The Aftermath of the RBCT
  • From 'Evidence-Based Policy' to 'Veterinary Advice': The Post 2010 Return to Badger Culling
  • 6.4 Epistemic Rivalries in bTB Policy
  • Chapter 7: Building a Public Controversy
  • 7.1 UK Newspaper Coverage: Some Key Indicators
  • 7.2 Agricultural Malaise or Environmental Risk? Media Framings of Badger/bTB
  • 7.3 Constituting and Contesting Badgers, bTB and Culling
  • 7.4 A Passing Storm?
  • Chapter 8: The Badgers Have Moved the Goalposts!
  • 8.1 TB in Humans, Other Animals and Environments
  • 8.2 Wildlife Conflict and the Great British Badger Debate
  • 8.3 Care as a Driver of Controversy
  • 8.4 Expectations
  • 8.5 Some Questions and Suggestions
  • A Note on Archives and Sources
  • Archival Sources Used and Directly Referenced in This Volume
  • Other Archives, Libraries and Collections That Have Been Used in This Research
  • Interviews and Oral History Material
  • Bibliography
  • Mass Media Sources
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Literature
  • Index.

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