Veterinary science

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...)

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


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