‘One Medicine? Cross-disciplinary advocacy for animal and human health’

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Abstract

Since the mid-2000s, international agencies, veterinary associations, NGOs and funding bodies have issued calls of increasing frequency and volume advocating greater integration across the domains of human, animal and environmental health. Citing threats to health from climate change, food insecurity and emerging infectious diseases, alongside the similarity of disease processes across humans and animals, advocates have lobbied for the broader integration of health research, policy and clinical practice, using slogans including ‘One World One Health' (Wildlife Conservation Society, 2010); ‘One Medicine' (Schwabe, 1984), and ‘One World-One Medicine-One Health' (Kahn, Kaplan and Monath, 2012). In recent years, ‘One Health' (OH) has been increasingly adopted as a catch-all term by actors across a broadening range of scientific, medical and professional disciplines, particularly veterinary medicine, global health and infectious diseases. But what does ‘One Health' actually mean? Where has OH come from, how is it used, in what contexts, by which actors, and how has it come to prominence in such a short space of time?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, & Barbara Prainsack (eds.) Investigating Interdisciplinary Research: Theory and Practice across Disciplines. Rutgers University Press, 2016
EditorsScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, Barbara Prainsack
PublisherRutgers University Press
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2016

Keywords

  • interdisciplinarity
  • One Health
  • Collaboration
  • History of science
  • science and technology studies
  • animal health

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