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Animals and the shaping of modern medicine : one health and its histories /

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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 r...

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Main Authors: Woods, Abigail, 1972- (Author), Bresalier, Michael (Author), Cassidy, Angela (Author), Mason Dentinger, Rachel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Series:Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
Subjects:
History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Medicine > History.
History of Medicine.
Veterinary Medicine > history.
One Health > history.
History, Modern 1601-
Medicine.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Centering animals within medical history
  • Doctors in the zoo: connecting human and animal health in British zoological gardens, c1828-1890
  • From co-ordinated campaigns to water-tight compartments: diseased sheep and their investigation in Britain, c1880-1920
  • From healthy cows to healthy humans: integrated approaches to world hunger, c1930-65
  • The parasitological pursuit: crossing species and disciplinary boundaries with Calvin W. Schwabe and the Echinococcus tapeworm, 1956-1975
  • Humans, other animals and 'One Health' in the early twenty-first century
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: annotated bibliography.