Veterinary science
Animals, Humans and Health
edited by 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...)
The Context
- 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
- Clare Palmer
- Animals in Anglo-American Philosophy
- Stefan Gunnarsson
- The Conceptualisation of Health and Disease in Veterinary Medicine
- Temple Grandin and Mark Deesing
- Distress in Animals: Is it Fear, Pain, or Physical Stress
- John Law
- Care and Killing: Tensions in Veterinary Practice image reproduced with permission of Chris Chapman
The Practice
a) Agricultural Control
- Miguel A. Velazquez
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Cattle: Applications in Livestock Production, Biomedical Research and Conservation Policy
- Stig Einarsson, Ylva Brandt, Nils Lundeheim, and Andrzej Madej
- Stress and its Influence on Reproduction in Pigs: A Review
- Bernard E. Rollin
- Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenonemon
b) Domesticity and Order
- Dipika Kadaba
- Rehabilitation of a Paraplegic Kitten with Acute Depression
- Douglas Thamm and Steven Dow
- How Companion Animals Contribute to the Fight Against Cancer in Humans
- Laura Ducceschi, Nicole Green and Crystal Miller Spiegel
- Dying to Learn: The Supply and Use of Companion Animals in US Colleges and Universities
- J. K. Kirkwood
- Animals at Home – Pets as Pests: A Review
c) In Place / Out of Place
- Valentina Merola
- Anticoagulant Rodenticides: Deadly for Pests, Dangerous for Pets
- Erica Fudge
- Pest Friends
- 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)
- K.B. Seidel and J.E. Rowell
- Canadian Muskoxen in Central Europe – a Zoo Veterinary Review’
- Fabrice Capber
- Veterinary Care of Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) at the Otter Breeding Centre of Hunawihr (France)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chris Wilbert
- Profit, Plague and Poultry: The Intra-Active Worlds of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
- Thom van Dooren
- Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinctions
The Future
- Axel Konerup Hansen, Kristen Dahl and Dorte Bratbo Sørensen
- Rearing and Caring for a Future Xenograph Donor Pig
- 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
- R. E. Weller
- Risk of Disease Spread Through Bioterrorism