Book description
Fully revised and expanded,
Goat Medicine, Second Edition
includes discussions on new diseases ranging from bovine spongiform
encephalopathy to floppy kid disease as well as major updates on
important diseases such as scrapie, mycoplasmosis, paratuberculosis, and
urolithiasis. Information has also been added on management of
transgenic goats and organic goat production. The text begins by
outlining fundamentals of goat practice and moves on to sytems-based
coverage of the goat. Each chapter provides clinical anatomy and
physiology of every system alongside information on relevant clinical
signs, differential diagnosis, and system-specific disease. Mary C. Smith,
DVM, Diplomate, ACT, Professor, Department of Population Medicine and
Diagnostic Sciences, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
David M. Sherman, DVM, MS, Diplomate, ACVIM, Clinical Associate
Professor, Department of Environmental and Population Health, Cummings
School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, North Grafton,
Massachusetts
