A short illustrated Embryology for Veterinary students

Veterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women. However, average salaries have dropped as this shift has occurred, and even with women in the vast majority, only 25 percent of leadership roles are held by women. These trends point to gender-based inequality that veterinary medicine, a profession that tilts so heavily toward women, is struggling to address. How will the profession respond? What will this mean for our students and schools? What will it mean for our pets entrusted to veterinarian care? Who has succeeded in these situations? Who is taking action to lead change? What can we learn from them to lead the pack in our lives? Leaders of the Pack, by Julie Kumble and Dr. Donald Smith, explores key themes in leadership and highlights women in veterinary medicine whose stories embody those themes. In it, Kumble and Smith cull over three years of interviews to profile a wide variety of women as they share triumphs and challenges, lucky as well as tough breaks, and the sound advice and words that inspired them to take their careers in unanticipated directions. By sharing unique stories that illuminate different paths to leadership and reflecting on best practices through commentary and research, Leaders of the Pack will allow more female leaders to create wider pathways to the top of their profession.

Micro-organisms and their activities are vitally important to virtually all processes on Earth. Micro-organisms matter because they affect every aspect of our lives - they are in us, on us and around us. Microbiology is the study of all living organisms that are too small to be visible with the naked eye. This includes bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, prions, protozoa and algae, collectively known as `microbes'. These microbes play key roles in nutrient cycling, biodegradation/biodeterioration, climate change, food spoilage, the cause and control of disease, and biotechnology. Microbes influence all living things and contribute to all manner of chemical and physical processes. Because these activities are so diverse, the science of microbiology is multidisciplinary, calling on the skills and knowledge of individuals specializing in many different fields of life science, environmental science, and engineering. Microbiology arose, and continues to profit from, several previously independent scientific and medical disciplines, including bacteriology, virology, public health science, clinical microbiology, immunology, parasitology, vaccinology, and a host of other areas of inquiry. The field of Veterinary Microbiology comprises the study of four big areas, bacteria, virus, fungi and parasites. Veterinary Microbiology is concerned with microbial (bacterial, fungal, viral) diseases of domesticated vertebrate animals (livestock, companion animals, fur-bearing animals, game, poultry, fish) that supply food, other useful products or companionship. This book will only concentrate on bacteria. An Introduction about reservoirs, and bacterial pathogenesis is given in Section 1. Intracellular bacteria (Chlamydia and Mycoplasma) that can cause different diseases depending on species and host are discussed in Sections 2 and 3. The next Section (Section 4) is dedicated to Staphylococcus aureus that cause Respiratory disease. Listeria monocytogenes, a Foodborne bacteria, is discussed in Section 5. Sections 6 to 11 are about different agents of disease (Tularemia, Tuberculosis, Botulism, Abortion and Q fever, respectively). The next 3 Sections (Sections 12 to 14) concentrate on tick-borne bacteria (Borrelia, Rickttesia, Anaplasma and Ehrlichia). Section 15 discusses Corynebacterium an emerging bacteria. Most of this bacteria are zoonotic, they can infect both humans and animals, Section 16 focuses on the study of zoonoses.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Veterinary School -the Holy Grail and brass ring for animal lovers the world over. An ex K-9 cop, a standardbred harness racer and a Brooklyn-born beauty queen walk into a bar... Add a rabbi, an Olympic gymnast, a loudmouth jerk, and a rough-hewn commercial fisherman from Maine and itmust be Friday Night Happy Hour at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Come along with Jack, Hoss, Kerri and the other first-year students of the Death Row Crew as they navigatethe irreverent, malodorous, demanding and exciting new world of veterinary medicine... their previously disparate lives become entwined in An Animal Life (and they wouldn't want it any other way). An Animal Life: The Beginningis a scientific medical mystery (animals and people are dying) and a quest for True Love (with a real cowboy) that unfolds as newbie first-year students struggle to survive the academicgauntlet of veterinary school. If you love animals and ever wondered about going to vet school, here's your chance to experience the joys and challenges without being kicked, scratched or bitten and at0.00001% the cost of tuition."

Punching Above Their Weight traces the development of the British Veterinary Association from its origins in late Victorian times into the twenty-first century. It documents the struggle of veterinarians to raise their practice from disorganised pragmatic beginnings to a science-based, politically influential body. Its author, Edward Boden, is a former editor of the Veterinary Record, executive editor of In Practice and Research in Veterinary Science, and editor of Blacks Veterinary Dictionary. ----------------------------------- This is a title in the Winchester University Press's New Perspectives on Veterinary History, edited by Louise Curth

Illustrated histology for veterinary students