Abigail Woods – författare

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? This book shows that FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow - damaging businesses and affecting international relations.

In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.