Mad dogs and Englishmen : rabies in Britain,1830-2000 / Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys

• 作者： Pemberton, Neil
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  • Worboys, Michael 1948-
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• 出版： Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007
• 叢書名： Science, technology, and medicine in modern history
• 主題： Rabies--history--Great Britain , History, 19th Century--Great Britain. , History, 20th Century--Great Britain. , Rabies--Great Britain--History--19th century , Rabies--Government policy--Great Britain--History , Rabies--Great Britain--Prevention--History--19th century , Rabies--Great Britain--Prevention--History--20th century , Rabies in animals--Great Britain
• ISBN： 9780230589544 、 0230589545
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• 書目註：Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain. It gripped the public imagination because its human form - hydrophobia - produced the worst of all possible deaths with the mind and body out of control. This book takes us back to an age when potentially rabid dogs lurked everywhere: at home, in the yard and on the street, in the press, in novels, and in popular memory. The narrative explores the changing understandings of rabies amongst vets, doctors, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public, and the struggles over methods of control. Hydrophobia was always fatal until 1885 when Louis Pasteur introduced his vaccine treatment - the world's first medicalbreakthrough - which we show led to conflicts between scientists and anitvivisectionists. Finally, Mad Dogs and Englishmen considers how rabies was eradicated from Britain in 1902 following the controversial imposition of muzzling dogs, then kept out by first by quarantines and from 2000 by Pet Passports Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-237) and index
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• 系統號： 005170026 | 機讀編目格式