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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories
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.
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Keywords
- animal ethics
- Animal testing
- Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics
- Animals
- bioethics
- biomedicine
- Calvin W. Schwabe
- Diseased Sheep
- Diseases
- Drug development
- Echinococcus tapeworm
- Healthy Cows
- History
- history of medicine
- history of science
- History: earliest times to present day
- History: specific events & topics
- Human health
- Humanities
- inter-war medicine
- Mathematics & science
- Medical research
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- Modern History
- One Health
- open access
- Parasitological Pursuit
- Public Health
- rickets
- Science: general issues
- Social & cultural history
- Social history
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MZ Veterinary medicine
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
- Tuberculosis
- Veterinary medicine
- Zoological gardens
Links
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
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