Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues

Norman F. Cheville is distinguished professor and dean emeritus of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University. Cheville began his work at the Army Biological Laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the Veterinary Corps of the US Army from 1959 to 1961. After three years as research associate at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to the National Animal Disease Center as chief of Pathology from 1964 to 1989, and later as chief of the Brucellosis Research Unit, where he led the team that developed a new vaccine for bovine brucellosis. Working under Tony Allison at the National Institute for Medical Research in London in 1968, he investigated cellular immunity in poxvirus diseases. He was appointed chair of the Department of Veterinary Pathology at Iowa State University in 1995, and in 2000 was appointed dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000, from which he retired in 2004.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Prologue1. The Veterinary Schools of Europe2. Edward Jenner: Zoologist, Physician, Pioneer3. William Dick: From Farrier to Veterinarian in Edinburgh4. The Science Giants of 1860: Pasteur, Virchow, and Darwin5. Robert Koch: Game ChangePart II. Farrier to Veterinarian6. Emigrants West: Ohio Country, Iowa Territory, and Tejas7. The Canadian Midwest: Divergence of Lower and Upper Canada8. Pioneers in the Midwest Frontier: Physicians in Veterinary Practice9. New Plagues, Civil War, and the United States Department of Agriculture10. Agriculture and Veterinary Science in the MidwestPart III. Pioneering Veterinary Education11. Urban East Versus Rural West: Montreal and New York Diss Toronto and Iowa12. The Pioneer State Colleges: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cornell13. Plagues and the Bureau of Animal Industry14. Bacteriology in the Heartland15. The 1890s: Horse Markets and Enrollments DropPart iv. Livestock and Veterinarians Go West16. Private Veterinary Schools: Chicago, Kansas City, and Indianapolis17. Public Veterinary Schools: The Second-Generation Pioneers18. The Bureau of Animal Industry and Hog Cholera19. Veterinary Education, Charles Stange, and the Flexner Report20. World War I: Biowarfare, Prejudice, and the U.S. ArmyVeterinary CorpsPart v. Ascendance21. Agricultural Depression Amidst a National Boom: The 1920s22. 1929: Prelude to Bad Times23. Public Health and Distrust of Government: The Tuberculin War24. A Depression Paradox: Culture and Science25. New Deal: Discoveries in Infectious DiseasePart vi. Duty Required26. War: The Home Front27. Veterinary Corps and Bioterror28. Postwar Investigations of Enemy Biological Warfare29. Prelude to the Science Revolution30. The Atomic AgePart vii. Transformation31. New Programs, New Laboratories: Malaria, Polio, and New Viruses32. Comparative Medicine: Models for Leukemia33. Grassroots Mandates: The National Research Centers for Livestock Diseases34. Old Plagues in the Wild: The National Wildlife Centers35. New Plagues: Scrapie, Mad Cow Disease, and the PrionPart VIII. Epilogue36. The Farm Crises of 1980–1995: Distrust of Science37. The Gender Shift38. Biopolitics39. Bioterror, Anthrax, and the National Animal Health Networks40. Anti-Science Scams and Keys to ProgressAppendixesNotesIndex