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Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: From the 1850s in Britain, concerns were growing about the role of animals in transmitting disease to man, whether through the food chain or through infection. While London is often seen as providing a model for public health reform, it was the great provincial cities that initiated veterinary involvement in public health in the closing years of the century. The emergence of this new strand of public health activity is the subject of this paper.

Source: Urban History

DOI: 10.1017/s0963926802003036

Author: Anne Hardy

Institutions: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London

Language: English

Topic: History of Science and Medicine

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2071543567

FWCI: 8.874

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Cited by: 25

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