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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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.
This open access book provides the first critical history of the
controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread
of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has
plagued several professional generations of politicians,
policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s.
Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and
what to do about this complex problem have been the source of
scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever
since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and
technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to
conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of
those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger
protection between the 1970s and 1990s, before reintegrating them
to investigate the recent public polarisation of the controversy.
Finally it asks how we might move beyond the current impasse.
This open access book provides the first critical history of the
controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread
of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has
plagued several professional generations of politicians,
policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s.
Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and
what to do about this complex problem have been the source of
scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever
since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and
technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to
conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of
those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger
protection between the 1970s and 1990s, before reintegrating them
to investigate the recent public polarisation of the controversy.
Finally it asks how we might move beyond the current impasse.
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