The farm as clinic: veterinary expertise and the transformation of dairy farming, 1930–1950

Woods, Abigail

doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.03.009

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“…Within this way of governing, animal diseases commanded veterinary attention for economic (FMD) or public health (brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis) reasons [33][34][35], while others were deemed less significant (e.g. mastitis and infertility [36]). …”

Section: The Governance Of Animal Health In the Food Chainmentioning

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The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

Enticott

Donaldson

Lowe

et al. 2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This paper analyses how the changing governance of animal health has impacted upon veterinary expertise and its role in providing public health benefits. It argues that the social sciences can play an important role in understanding the nature of these changes, but also that their ideas and methods are, in part, responsible for them. The paper begins by examining how veterinary expertise came to be crucial to the regulation of the food chain in the twentieth century. The relationship between the veterinary profession and the state proved mutually beneficial, allowing the state to address the problems of animal health, and the veterinary profession to become identified as central to public health and food supply. However, this relationship has been gradually eroded by the application of neoliberal management techniques to the governance of animal health. This paper traces the impact of these techniques that have caused widespread unease within and beyond the veterinary profession about the consequences for its role in maintaining the public good of animal health. In conclusion, this paper suggests that the development of the social sciences in relation to animal health could contribute more helpfully to further changes in veterinary expertise.

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Section: The Governance Of Animal Health In the Food Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

Enticott

Donaldson

Lowe

et al. 2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…It is a contested concept. 19 The ARC was transformed into the Agriculture and Food Research Council in 1983. It was replaced by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in 1993.…”

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“…However, they rarely had an opportunity to do so because farmers typically slaughtered or sold affected cows, or treated them with home-made or patent remedies. To overcome this problem, they proposed a 'Scheme for the control of certain diseases of dairy cattle', commonly known as the 'survey' or 'panel' scheme [19].…”

Section: Enhancing the Food Supply In Wartime 1939 -1945mentioning

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“…Brucellosis vaccination proved so successful that MAF introduced its own subsidized calf vaccination scheme in 1944. The same year, it reopened its attested herds scheme [19].…”

Section: Enhancing the Food Supply In Wartime 1939 -1945mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, the government lowered funding for agricultural and veterinary research, reduced the size of the Veterinary Investigation Service, and-in pursuit of efficiency savings-turned it and the Central Veterinary Laboratory into arms-length agencies [106,107]. 19 Concurrent efforts to harmonize trade within the EU, and to reform the CAP by reducing international trading barriers led to an increase in the scale and frequency of international livestock movements, 20 and the reappearance of FMD in several countries that were formerly free of the disease [10,91]. In the late 1990s, partly as a result of the BSE crisis and the growing power of the supermarkets to drive down farm gate prices, farmers' incomes declined.…”

Section: Rolling Back the State 1980-2000mentioning

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A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

Woods

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The diseases suffered by British livestock, and the ways in which they were perceived and managed by farmers, vets and the state, changed considerably over the course of the twentieth century. This paper documents and analyses these changes in relation to the development of public policy. It reveals that scientific knowledge and disease demographics cannot by themselves explain the shifting boundaries of state responsibility for animal health, the diseases targeted and the preferred modes of intervention. Policies were shaped also by concerns over food security and the public's health, the state of the national and livestock economy, the interests and expertise of the veterinary profession, and prevailing agricultural policy. This paper demonstrates how, by precipitating changes to farming and trading practices, public policy could sometimes actually undermine farm animal health. Animal disease can therefore be viewed both as a stimulus to, and a consequence of, twentieth century public policy.

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The History of Veterinary Ethics in Britain, ca.1870-2000

Woods¹

2012

Veterinary &Amp; Animal Ethics

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The farm as clinic: veterinary expertise and the transformation of dairy farming, 1930–1950

Cited by 35 publications

References 19 publications

The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain

A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

The History of Veterinary Ethics in Britain, ca.1870-2000

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