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On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease (2022)

Novick, Tamar (Author)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 96
Issue: 3
Pages: 431-457
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0035

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/874457

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Great Britain, colonies Human-animal relationships Animal diseases Mobility studies Communicable diseases Horses 20th century, early Palestine

African horse sickness (AHS) plagued the Middle East in 1944 for the first time. It spread into Palestine during a transformative period, as the role of animals as global migrant-laborers was shifting; soon after, automated machines would relieve their burden and transform the relations between farmers, traders, the state and its policing powers, and the global market. By following the movement and management of this outbreak of the disease, along with medical knowledge and tools of prevention and treatment, the article demonstrates that animal health and mobility were substantial matters of concern in British Palestine. It shows, furthermore, that AHS became a catalyst in dismantling the economic, social, and cultural value of animals of burden and their handlers.

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