Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

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Title

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

Subject

Veterinary medicine

Description

This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. 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. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of Britain’s zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California and Beirut, they illuminate the multi-species dimensions of modern medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The modern movement for One Health – whose history is also analyzed – is therefore revealed as just the latest attempt to improve health by working across species and disciplines. This book will appeal to historians of animals, science and medicine, to those involved in the promotion and practice of One Health today.

Creator

Woods
Abigail Bresalier,
Michael Cassidy,
Angela Mason Dentinger,
Rachel

Source

http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28420

Publisher

Springer Nature
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/books

Date

2017

Contributor

Nafisa

Rights

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Format

pdf

Language

english

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3

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