The People’s League of Health and the campaign against bovine tuberculosis in the 1930s

Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 69-82

  Barnett, L Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203350416-12     Document Type: Chapter

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