Veterinary science

Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health

edited by Erica Fudge and Clare Palmer

 

Erica Fudge and Clare Palmer

     Introduction


1 The Context

1. Abigail Woods and Stephen Matthews

    “Little, if at all, Removed from the Illiterate Farrier or Cow-leech”: The English Veterinary Surgeon, c.1860-1885, and the Campaign for Veterinary Reform

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

     Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Cattle: Applications in Livestock Production, Biomedical Research and Conservation Policy

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

     Pest Friends

15. Lawrence Mugisha, Claudia Kücherer, Heinz Ellerbrok, Sandra Junglen, John Opuda-Asibo, Olobo O. Joseph, Georg Pauli and Fabian H. Leendertz

     Retroviruses in Wild-Born Semi-Captive East African Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

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

     Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues: A Layperson’s Guide to the Problems with Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants 

25. R. E. Weller

     Risk of Disease Spread Through Bioterrorism