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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-64336-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 31, 2017

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Centring Animals Within Medical History

Woods, Abigail; Bresalier, Michael; Cassidy, Angela; Mason Dentinger, Rachel

Pages: 1 –26

[This chapter lays down the volume’s aims and objectives: to make a programmatic contribution to the field of medical history by elucidating some of the largely unrecognised ways in which animals informed the knowledges, practices and social formations of medicine; to enhance the burgeoning field...
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Chapter 2Doctors in the Zoo: Connecting Human and Animal Health in British Zoological Gardens, c.1828–1890

Woods, Abigail

Pages: 27 –69

[This chapter identifies Britain’s nineteenth-century zoos as important sites of medical research and practice that have shaped and have been shaped by animals. It explores the illness experiences of animal inhabitants, the problematic nature of their diseases and deaths, and how these events...
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Chapter 3From Coordinated Campaigns to Watertight Compartments: Diseased Sheep and their Investigation in Britain, c.1880–1920

Woods, Abigail

Pages: 71 –117

[This chapter explores the history of diseased and dying sheep on farms in and around Scotland at the turn of the twentieth century. It reveals how these animals came to be regarded as victims of their environment, and positioned at the hub of a research network containing farmers, doctors, vets,...
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Chapter 4From Healthy Cows to Healthy Humans: Integrated Approaches to World Hunger, c.1930–1965

Bresalier, Michael

Pages: 119 –160

[This chapter is concerned with diseased and undernourished dairy cattle, and how they came to be perceived not simply as threats to agriculture but also as contributors to world hunger and ill health. Moving from interwar Britain and its empire to the post-war international stage, it explores...
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Chapter 5 The Parasitological Pursuit: Crossing Species and Disciplinary Boundaries with Calvin W. Schwabe and the Echinococcus Tapeworm, 1956–1975

Mason Dentinger, Rachel

Pages: 161 –191

[This chapter focuses on the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus, as studied by American parasitologist Calvin Schwabe. It shows how following the movements of Echinococcus between animal hosts, ecological environments, continents, and scientific and medical disciplines led Schwabe to new...
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Chapter 6 Humans, Other Animals and ‘One Health’ in the Early Twenty-First Century

Cassidy, Angela

Pages: 193 –236

[This chapter explores the history of recent movements for One Health, which argue that because many of today’s pressing health problems lie at the interface of human, animal and environmental health, they can only be managed effectively by breaking down traditional disciplinary silos. It...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Woods, Abigail; Bresalier, Michael; Cassidy, Angela; Mason Dentinger, Rachel

Pages: 237 –245

[This chapter summarizes what this book has revealed about the medical history of animals and the animal history of medicine. It reflects on the implications of these findings for how historians think about and study the history of medicine, and for how One Health advocates conceptualize and...

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