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

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This volume breaks new ground in applying Benson’s second per-spective to medical history: ‘to explore the history of nonhuman ani-mals as subjects in their own right and for their own sakes’.5 Humans remain important, of course, for ultimately we can only know about animals from the records that humans have created, and which reflect human interests in animals. However, by taking animals seriously as his-torical subjects, it is possible to shed a different light on human history by revealing the myriad ways in which animals have influenced human actions and perceptions. Adopting this approach also illuminates ani-mals as creatures with their own histories, which have been profoundly altered by their relationships with humans, and the roles that humans have decided they should perform. It results in a richer, less anthropo-centric account of the medical past, which reveals how, in different times and places, animals have experienced medicine, how they have been pro-duced by it and how they have changed it.In widening the historical lens to incorporate animals and their fash-ioning into medical subjects and objects, this volume pursues three key goals. first, it seeks to make a programmatic contribution to the field of medical history by elucidating some of the largely unrecognized ways in which animals have informed the knowledges, practices and social forma-tions of medicine. Through analysing key contexts in which animals have attracted medical attention and with what effects, it will expose a series of medical problems, concerns, personnel and practices that barely feature in existing scholarship. In addition, by studying the historical position-ing of animals at the shifting boundaries between medicine, veterinary medicine and the life sciences, it will cast new light on the relationships between these fields. It will thereby demonstrate how, by attending to the more-than-human dimensions of medicine, we reach new under-standings of its historical identity, participants and manner of pursuit.Second, the volume seeks to enhance the burgeoning field of animal history by offering the first substantive account of animals in medicine. Expanding beyond much-studied laboratory contexts to explore the medical history of animals in zoos, on farms, in hospitals, post-mortem rooms and international policy arenas, it illuminates the diverse species that have participated in medicine, the many roles they have played in it, and how their bodies and habits have both shaped and been shaped by its ideas, practices and institutions. Crucially, the volume highlights how these diverse species forged multispecies networks, thereby extend-ing animal history’s typical focus on the dyadic relationships between humans and another species of animal.The third objective of this volume is to speak to the twenty-first-cen-tury initiative known as One Health (OH). featuring prominently in medical, veterinary and scientific publications, and in national and inter-national health policy and position statements, OH pursues an expansive vision of improving health and wellbeing through the multidisciplinary study of problems at the interface of humans, animals and their environ-ments. for its proponents, OH represents a necessary response to a host of shared threats to human and animal health, such as emerging diseases that transmit between animals and humans, antimicrobial resistance, food insecurity, food safety and climate change. They argue that such issues cannot be tackled effectively within the traditional disciplinary compartments of human medicine, veterinary medicine and the life sci-ences. Rather, integrated, coordinated approaches are required, in which the health of animals is considered in relation to the health of humans and the environment.6 This volume situates OH within a longer histori-cal context by illuminating certain precedents to this way of working. It also offers a critical, empirically grounded perspective on its operation today by exploring the circumstances that gave rise to its emergence as a self-conscious movement, and how its proponents conceptualize the roles of animals within it.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

902 WOO a

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

290 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783319643373

Klasifikasi

902

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Miscellany of History

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