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[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/IntroductionLivBTVetSci.pdf Introduction] <br> The shared | [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/IntroductionLivBTVetSci.pdf Introduction] <br> The shared physicality of humans and animals -- as suggested by this early modern advice book on animal health -- was widely accepted in the seventeenth century. As historian Louise Hill Curth has noted, in this period ‘Almost all of the procedures that were used for humans were also applied to animals’ (Curth, 2010: 114). Since then, however, human and animal medicine appears to have taken a more dualistic form, with human medical care on one side and animal veterinary care on the other. The establishment of veterinary science as a separate profession, which took place during the nineteenth century, signalled that a very different model of care was -- and should be -- available for humans than for animals. A vet was never a human doctor, and vice versa. But this separation has rarely been more than skin-deep. Taking a close look at contemporary veterinary science, as we do in this living book, shows how difficult it is to maintain this separation. Everywhere humans and animals are entangled: we choose to share our homes with animals; we eat them; they both sicken and cure us. Equally, many animals rely on us for food and health; they invade ‘our’ spaces; they eat our (fleshy and other) waste; they suffer because of our illnesses. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Veterinary_science/Introduction (more...)] <br> | ||
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Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health
edited by Erica Fudge and Clare Palmer
Erica Fudge and Clare Palmer
Introduction
The shared physicality of humans and animals -- as suggested by this early modern advice book on animal health -- was widely accepted in the seventeenth century. As historian Louise Hill Curth has noted, in this period ‘Almost all of the procedures that were used for humans were also applied to animals’ (Curth, 2010: 114). Since then, however, human and animal medicine appears to have taken a more dualistic form, with human medical care on one side and animal veterinary care on the other. The establishment of veterinary science as a separate profession, which took place during the nineteenth century, signalled that a very different model of care was -- and should be -- available for humans than for animals. A vet was never a human doctor, and vice versa. But this separation has rarely been more than skin-deep. Taking a close look at contemporary veterinary science, as we do in this living book, shows how difficult it is to maintain this separation. Everywhere humans and animals are entangled: we choose to share our homes with animals; we eat them; they both sicken and cure us. Equally, many animals rely on us for food and health; they invade ‘our’ spaces; they eat our (fleshy and other) waste; they suffer because of our illnesses. (more...)
1 The Context
1. Abigail Woods and Stephen Matthews
2. Clare Palmer
Animals in Anglo-American Philosophy
3. Stefan Gunnarsson
The Conceptualisation of Health and Disease in Veterinary Medicine
4. Temple Grandin and Mark Deesing
Distress in Animals: Is it Fear, Pain, or Physical Stress
5. John Law
Care and Killing: Tensions in Veterinary Practice image reproduced with permission of Chris Chapman
2 The Practice
a) Agricultural Control
6. Miguel A. Velazquez
7. Stig Einarsson, Ylva Brandt, Nils Lundeheim, and Andrzej Madej
Stress and its Influence on Reproduction in Pigs: A Review
8. Bernard E. Rollin
Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenonemon
b) Domesticity and Order
9. Dipika Kadaba
Rehabilitation of a Paraplegic Kitten with Acute Depression
10. Douglas Thamm and Steven Dow
How Companion Animals Contribute to the Fight Against Cancer in Humans
11. Laura Ducceschi, Nicole Green and Crystal Miller Spiegel
Dying to Learn: The Supply and Use of Companion Animals in US Colleges and Universities
12. J. K. Kirkwood
Animals at Home – Pets as Pests: A Review
c) In Place / Out of Place
13. Valentina Merola
Anticoagulant Rodenticides: Deadly for Pests, Dangerous for Pets
14. Erica Fudge
15. Lawrence Mugisha, Claudia Kücherer, Heinz Ellerbrok, Sandra Junglen, John Opuda-Asibo, Olobo O. Joseph, Georg Pauli and Fabian H. Leendertz
16. K.B. Seidel and J.E. Rowell
Canadian Muskoxen in Central Europe – a Zoo Veterinary Review’
17. Fabrice Capber
Veterinary Care of Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) at the Otter Breeding Centre of Hunawihr (France)
18. Hope R. Ferdowsian, Debra L. Durham, Charles Kimwele, Godelieve Kranendonk,, Emily Otali, Timothy Akugizibwe, J. B. Mulcahy, Lilly Ajarova, Cassie Meré Johnson
Signs of Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Chimpanzees
d) Entanglements
19. Jesús Á Lemus, Guillermo Blanco, Javier Grande, Bernardo Arroyo, Marino Garcia-Montijano, Felix Martinez
Antibiotics Threaten Wildlife: Circulating Quinolone Residues and Disease in Avian Scavengers
20. Belén Vázques, Fernando Esperón, Elena Neves, Juan López, Carlos Ballesteros and Jesús Muñoz
Screening for Several Potential Pathogens in Feral Pigeons (Columba livia) in Madrid
21. Chris Wilbert
Profit, Plague and Poultry: The Intra-Active Worlds of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
22. Thom van Dooren
Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinctions
3 The Future
23. Axel Konerup Hansen, Kristen Dahl and Dorte Bratbo Sørensen
Rearing and Caring for a Future Xenograph Donor Pig
24. Alix Fano, Murry J. Cohen, Marjorie Cramer, Ray Greek, Stephen R. Kaufman
25. R. E. Weller