Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

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Angela Cassidy

Vermin, Victims and Disease

British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

Angela Cassidy

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
02 October 2019

This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do about this complex problem have been the source of scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger protection between the 1970s and 1990s, before reintegrating them to investigate the recent public polarisation of the controversy. Finally it asks how we might move beyond the current impasse.

By: Angela Cassidy
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 784g
ISBN: 9783030191856
ISBN 10: 3030191850
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 02 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part One: CONTEXTS.- 1 Of Badgers, Bovines and Bacteria.- 2 How the Badger Became Tuberculous.- Part Two: REFRAMING BOVINE TB (c.1960-1995).- 3 Changing Veterinary Knowledge.- 4 Pest Control and Ecology.- 5 Protecting the Badger?.- Part Three: CONTESTING ANIMAL HEALTH (1996-PRESENT).- 6 Cutting the Cake of Science and Policy.- 7 Building a Public Controversy.- 8 Conclusion – The Badgers Have Moved the Goalposts!.

Angela Cassidy is a Lecturer in the Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR), University of Exeter, UK. She works across the history and social studies of science, researching public controversies and policy through an interdisciplinary lens.

Reviews for Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book is a history of the science and policy behind Britain's ongoing badger controversy. ... The advantage of Dr Cassidy's book is that she carefully peels back the layers and reveals the full complexity of a situation that seems to have little hope of immediate resolution. ... Dr Cassidy's style is admirably clear, jargon-free and without artifice. (Peter J. Atkins, Agricultural History Review, Vol. 69 (1), 2021)