Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories

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

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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. Ranging across the health histories of British zoo animals, Scottish sheep, livestock in developing countries, and the study of tapeworms in California and Beirut, it illuminates the multi-species dimensions of modern medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The history of the current movement for One Health is also analysed, and revealed as just the latest of many attempts to improve health by working across species and disciplines.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	280
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319643373
ISBN (Print)	9783319643366, 9783319741185
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 2018

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Name	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

Keywords

Veterinary medicine
Medical sciences
History of Medicine
Medicine

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