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Zoo Veterinarians - Governing Care on a Diseased Planet (Paperback)
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Zoo Veterinarians - Governing Care on a Diseased Planet (Paperback)
Series: Law, Science and Society
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Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary
accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo
veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in
the social science and humanities. Drawing on in-depth interviews
and observations of zoo and aquarium veterinarians, mainly in
Europe and North America, this book highlights the recent
transformation that has occurred in the zoo veterinarian profession
during a time of ecological crisis, and what these changes can
teach us about our rapidly changing planet. Zoo vets, Braverman
instructs us with a wink, have "gone wild." Originally an
individual welfare-centered profession, these experts are
increasingly concerned with the sustainability of wild animal
populations and with ecological health. The story of zoo vets going
wild-in their subjects of care, their motivations, and their
ethical standards, as well as in their professional practices and
scientific techniques-is also a story about zoo animals gone wild,
wild animals encroaching the zoo, and, more generally, a wild world
that is becoming "zoo-ified." Such transformations have challenged
existing veterinary standards and practices. Exploring the
regulatory landscape that governs the work of zoo and aquarium
veterinarians, Braverman traverses the gap between the hard and
soft sciences and between humans and nonhumans. At the intersection
of animal studies, socio-legal studies, and science and technology
studies, this book will appeal not only to those interested in zoos
and in animal welfare, but also to scholars in the posthumanities.
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