Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
One Health and its Histories
Authors: Woods, A., Bresalier, M., Cassidy, A., Mason Dentinger, R.
- Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license
- Opens up a new perspective on the history of modern medicine in which animals and their diseases take centre stage
- Explores the complex combined history of medicine and veterinary medicine
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- About this book
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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.
- About the authors
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Abigail Woods is Professor of the History of Human and Animal Health and Head of the Department of History at King’s College London, UK.
Michael Bresalier is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Swansea University, UK.
Angela Cassidy is a Lecturer in the Politics department, University of Exeter, UK.
Rachel Mason Dentinger is a Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Instructor at the University of Utah, USA.
- Reviews
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“Both historians of medicine and advocates of One Health will benefit from its careful reconstructions of the intertwined histories of human and animal health and its incisive critiques of the conceptual and institutional borders that continue to separate them.” (Etienne S. Benson, Isis, Vol. 111 (2), 2020)
“This is a methodologically well-grounded book, full of documentation, on one of the major shifts in animal health history through the centuries. It illustrates a rarely explored aspect of current globalization that goes beyond internationalization, and illustrates the concept of ‘globality’ in the life sciences with the logical consequence of medicine being fundamentally as unitary as life. … a descriptive book that explores the development of a current phenomenon in society.” (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2018)
“Animals and the Making of Modern Medicine demonstrates the distance that can be traveled, and the depth of connections that can be revealed, when we break through disciplinary boundaries and challenge the norms that define – and limit – our scholarly pursuits.” (Georgina M. Montgomery, Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 51, 2018)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: Centring Animals Within Medical History
Pages 1-26
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Doctors in the Zoo: Connecting Human and Animal Health in British Zoological Gardens, c.1828–1890
Pages 27-69
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From Coordinated Campaigns to Watertight Compartments: Diseased Sheep and their Investigation in Britain, c.1880–1920
Pages 71-117
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From Healthy Cows to Healthy Humans: Integrated Approaches to World Hunger, c.1930–1965
Pages 119-160
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The Parasitological Pursuit: Crossing Species and Disciplinary Boundaries with Calvin W. Schwabe and the Echinococcus Tapeworm, 1956–1975
Pages 161-191
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
- Book Subtitle
- One Health and its Histories
- Authors
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- Abigail Woods
- Michael Bresalier
- Angela Cassidy
- Rachel Mason Dentinger
- Series Title
- Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-64337-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-64336-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-74118-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 280
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 illustrations in colour
- Topics
