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oapen-20.500.12657-284202021-11-12T15:58:08Z Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine Woods, Abigail Bresalier, Michael Cassidy, Angela Mason Dentinger, Rachel Animals diseases medicine history Echinococcus granulosus Food and Agriculture Organization Health Parasitism Sheep Veterinary medicine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MZ Veterinary medicine 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. 2018-09-24 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:22:30Z 2020-04-01T12:22:30Z 2017 book 1001537 OCN: 1076783314 9783319643373 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28420 eng Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History application/pdf n/a Bookshelf_NBK481745.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3 10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319643373 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 290 Basingstoke Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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. 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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