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<div align="center"><b><i>Modern Times, Rural Places:<br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br>
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<b><i>“The Disease Among Us: Agriculture, Public Health, and the
Bovine Tuberculosis Debates”<br>
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<div align="center">Susan D. Jones<br>
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Associate Professor, Program in the History of Science and Technology;
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; University of
Minnesota<br><br>
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The dynamic ecology of bovine tuberculosis serves as a window into
changing human-animal relationships and visions of rural and urban
health. It transgresses the organic boundaries between cattle,
humans, and wildlife; is equally at home in rural, urban, and “wild”
places; and has played a role in national dramas of modernization.
In the late 1800s, Anglo-American scientists characterized bovine
tuberculosis as an “environmental” disease that destroyed innocent
children. American public health workers linked anti-tuberculosis
measures to the larger campaign for “purity” in individuals, corporate
powers, and governance. In both the U.S. and the U.K., costly
20th-century campaigns attempted to eradicate tuberculosis in
cattle. Control has proved elusive as the disease has flourished in
rural areas of the world and in the wildlife of nations where it was
assumed to be eradicated. <br>
<div align="center"><b> <br>
Friday, April 14, 2006<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact
Margo Collett at
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