[Sci-tech-public] Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar, Friday, April 14, 2006
Margo Collett
mcollett at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 6 10:03:14 EDT 2006
Modern Times, Rural Places:
Seminar Series at MIT
"The Disease Among Us: Agriculture, Public Health, and the Bovine
Tuberculosis Debates"
Susan D. Jones
Associate Professor, Program in the History of Science and
Technology; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; University
of Minnesota
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.
Friday, April 14, 2006
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact
Margo Collett at <file:///mailto:mcollet@mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu
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