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  • Mad dogs and Englishmen[electronic resource] :rabies in Britain,1830-2000 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 614.563094109034
    書名/作者: Mad dogs and Englishmen : rabies in Britain,1830-2000 // Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys.
    作者: Pemberton, Neil.
    其他作者: Worboys, Michael,
    出版者: Basingstoke ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: x, 247 p. : : ill.
    標題: Rabies - history - Great Britain.
    標題: History, 19th Century - Great Britain.
    標題: History, 20th Century - Great Britain.
    標題: Rabies - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Rabies - Government policy - Great Britain
    標題: Rabies - Prevention - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Rabies - Prevention - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Rabies in animals - Great Britain.
    ISBN: 9780230589544
    ISBN: 0230589545
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-237) and index.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
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