FROM BREEDING & FEEDING TO MEDICALIZATION. ANIMAL FARMING, VETERINARIZATION AND CONSUMERS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY WESTERN EUROPE

1. Introduction
• Part 1: Animal husbandry and dairy production and consumption
2. Figuring the Past: statistics as cultural artefacts in British agri-culture from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
3. Shifting feeding strategies in Swedish dairy farming, from the late 19th to the late 20thc.
4. The devil is always in details. Good and bad oilseed cakes at the end of the nineteenth century in France and Italy
5. Telmo Otero Rodríguez & Daniel Lanero Táboas, HISTAGRA, University of Santiago de Compostela
6. Marco Marigliano, PhD Stud. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza-Cremona), Italy
7. Ronald Plantinga, Merijn Knibbe & Marijn Molema, Fryske Akademy, the Netherlands
8. Fernando Collantes, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Part 2: Veterinarians and antibiotics
9. Karl Bruno, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
10. Diego Conde Gómez & Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, HISTAGRA, University of Santiago de Compostela.
11. Kristina Nordéus, DVM, PhD; Agricultural Counsellor; Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU (Vet).
12. Annick Jacq, CNRS EA 610 Université Paris Saclay (microbiologist).
13. Alexandra Waluszewski, Dept. of Economic History, Uppsala University (Economist)
14. Rise and fall of ecopathology. The thwarted development of a preventive approach to animal health (France, 1970s-1980s)

To fully understand the changes in European animal husbandry during the long twentieth century, it is necessary to examine all aspects of the food chain devoted to supplying proteins and fats to a growing population. Indeed, the twentieth century saw great changes in animal husbandry - towards a market-oriented, intensified and specialized production. This influenced and was influenced by policies, trade, aspects of animal and public health, food supply issues, aims in animal breeding, development of production systems, principles in feeding and impact of producer cooperatives.

Because it is not possible to apprehend all these global changes from a rural point of view, this book aims to bring together many different expert perspectives in fields such as: agronomy, veterinary medicine, microbiology, history of sciences, economic and cultural history, and sociology. Taking into account both national idiosyncrasies and changes from an international perspective, the book gathers scientists from Italy, Spain, France, England, The Netherlands and Sweden.

The first part of the book will be devoted to the evolution of animal husbandry and commercialization from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The second part of the book is devoted to the increasing medicalization of this sector with a special focus on the role of veterinarians and on the increasing uses of antibiotics.