Animals and the shaping of modern medicine : : One Health and its histories / / Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, Rachel Mason Dentinger.

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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Superior document:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition 2018.
Language:English
Series:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction. Centring animals within medical history
  • Chapter 2: Doctors in the Zoo: Connecting human and animal health in British zoological gardens, c1828-1890; Abigail Woods
  • Chapter 3: From co-ordinated campaigns to water-tight compartments: Diseased sheep and their investigation in Britain, c1880-1920; Abigail Woods
  • Chapter 4: From healthy cows to healthy humans: Integrated approaches to world hunger, c1930-65; Michael Bresalier
  • Chapter 5: The Parasitological Pursuit: Crossing species and disciplinary boundaries with Calvin W. Schwabe and the Echinococcus tapeworm, 1956-1975; Rachel Mason Dentinger
  • Chapter 6: Humans, other animals and ‘One Health’ in the early twenty-first century; Angela Cassidy
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion
  • Appendix: Annotated bibliography.