MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN by Neil Pemberton, Michael Worboys ( 9780230589544 )

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MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN
RABIES IN BRITAIN, 1830-2000

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ISBN 10:

0230589545

ISBN 13:

9780230589544

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

17 October, 2007

Series:

Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

Description:

Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public.

Synopsis:

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 medical breakthrough - 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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Palgrave Macmillan

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