The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781108434065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str.

Amanda Kay McVety

Opis

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

Recenzje

'This is a very timely book, told in a masterful way.' Alain Touwaide, Doody's Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Rinderpest and the origins of international vooperation for disease control; 2. GIR-1: rinderpest in World War II; 3. 'Freedom from want': UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns; 4. The machinery of development: FAO's rinderpest campaigns; 5. Back to Grosse Île: biological warfare in the postwar world; 6. 'Freedom from rinderpest'; Conclusion.