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Veterinary History Books
Use the OSU Library Catalog Search Engine to find books and monographs owned by the OSU Libraries.
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Selected titles available at OSU:
Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History by
Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History is a comprehensive historical work focusing on three primary themes: the evolution of veterinary medicine, the role of animals throughout recorded history, and the unique human-animal bond.
Call Number: 636.08909 D922vISBN: 0801632099Publication Date: 1995
The Winning of Animal Health: 100 Years of Veterinary Medicine by
This text traces the emergence of veterinary medicine from the horse doctors of the 1880s to the superbly trained professionals of the 1990s. It details the conquering and eradication of the major diseases or plagues that threatened food animals early in this century.
Call Number: 619.00973 S782wISBN: 9780813824291Publication Date: 1995
Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and their Patients in modern America by
Over the course of the twentieth century, the relationship between Americans and their domestic animals has changed dramatically. In the 1890s, pets were a luxury, horses were the primary mode of transport, and nearly half of all Americans lived or worked on farms. Today, the pet industry is a multibillion-dollar-a-year business, keeping horses has become an expensive hobby, and consumers buy milk and meat in pristine supermarkets. Veterinarians have been very much a part of these changes in human-animal relationships.
Call Number: 636.0890973 J79vISBN: 9780801871290Publication Date: 2002
Cattle Plague: a History by
This work deals with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks.
Call Number: 636.20894575 S757cISBN: 9780306477898Publication Date: 2003
Animals and Disease: an Introduction to the History Comparative Medicine by
This book describes the origins and later development, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of comparative medicine and its interrelationship with medicine and veterinary medicine and the efforts of its practitioners to understand and control outbreaks of infectious, epidemic diseases in humans and in domestic animals.
Call Number: 619.06 M212hISBN: 9780521375733Publication Date: 1992
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues by
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues - anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio -were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1612496423Publication Date: 2021
Animals, Disease and Human Society by
This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health.
Call Number: 619.009 S971aISBN: 9780415181938Publication Date: 1998
A short history of veterinary medicine in America by Call Number: 619.009 B588sPublication Date: 1955- The American veterinary profession, its background and development by Call Number: 619.009 S664aPublication Date: 1963
OSU CVM History
- A History of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Oklahoma State University by
Provides both a general history of veterinary medicine and a history of the Oklahoma State University veterinary school from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the 1980s.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 0914956299Publication Date: 1986
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, 1948-1988 : forty years of education, research and compassionCall Number: 619.00711 O41Zc6Publication Date: 1988