Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947

ISBN-13: 9780367471880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Cornelia Knab

Opis

This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s. It shows the historical challenges of developing international strategies to urgent global problem areas for which there are still no easy solutions today.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, 2. Animal Diseases and the Global 19th Century, 3. International Approaches to Contain Cross-Border Epizootics, 1863–1914, 4. Restarting Veterinary Internationalism After the First World War, 5. The League of Nations and International Projects Addressing Animal Diseases, 6. Veterinary Internationalism in Times of Crisis: The OIE, 1927–1947, 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Cornelia Knab is Head of Scientific Management and Research Associate at the Europainstitut of the University of Basel, Switzerland.