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oapen-20.500.12657-566382022-06-02T03:30:51Z Chapter 4 Animals Walker-Meikle, Kathleen history of medicine; animals bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine This chapter will examine the cultural history of medicine through animals. Historical scholarship on animals has grown exponentially in the last decades. Described as the ‘animal turn’, it offers new perspectives on human culture by examining the roles animals have played in human society, although it often still remains at the margins or between disciplines (Ritvo 2007: 118–22). It includes cultural history (Resl 2009), archaeology (O’Connor 2013), environmental history, intellectual history and the study of animals as commodities, encompassing fields as disparate from zoo studies to evolutionary history. In the field of medieval studies, animals have remained at the periphery of medical history and are rarely the focus of scholarship. Although they are accorded due attention in veterinary history, there has been little work on their place in medical history.1 This chapter hopes to inspire the reader with a brief survey of the multiple ways in which animals and humans intersect in medieval medical history, looking at animals as medical metaphors; animals as a source of ill health and injury; animals used for nourishment and healing; and the parallels between the treatment of animals and humans. 2022-06-01T14:04:32Z 2022-06-01T14:04:32Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56638 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK576016.pdf Bloomsbury Academic A Cultural History of Medicine 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 53f615a9-1e06-4287-879f-81cd6ff85e79 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 20 WT090591MA Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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This chapter will examine the cultural history of medicine through animals. Historical scholarship on animals has grown exponentially in the last decades. Described as the ‘animal turn’, it offers new perspectives on human culture by examining the roles animals have played in human society, although it often still remains at the margins or between disciplines (Ritvo 2007: 118–22). It includes cultural history (Resl 2009), archaeology (O’Connor 2013), environmental history, intellectual history and the study of animals as commodities, encompassing fields as disparate from zoo studies to evolutionary history.
In the field of medieval studies, animals have remained at the periphery of medical history and are rarely the focus of scholarship. Although they are accorded due attention in veterinary history, there has been little work on their place in medical history.1 This chapter hopes to inspire the reader with a brief survey of the multiple ways in which animals and humans intersect in medieval medical history, looking at animals as medical metaphors; animals as a source of ill health and injury; animals used for nourishment and healing; and the parallels between the treatment of animals and humans.
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