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From healthy cows to healthy humans: Integrated approaches to world hunger, c. 1930-1965

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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine, Pages: 119 - 160

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This chapter is concerned with diseased and under-nourished dairy cattle, and how they came to be perceived simultaneously as threats to agriculture and as contributors to world hunger and malnutrition. Moving from inter-war Britain and its empire, to the post-war international stage, it explores ho...

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Published in: Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
ISBN: 978-3-319-64336-6 978-3-319-64337-3
Published: Basingstoke Palgrave 2018
Online Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
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