| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 419 pages) : illustrations, map |
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New approaches to the history of science and medicine |
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New approaches to the history of science and medicine.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Note on Translations -- Preface -- Introduction: Human-Animal Relationships and the Need for Veterinary Medicine -- Early Animal Healing -- Domestication -- Traces of Veterinary Medicine in Antiquity: Keeping Animals Healthy -- Veterinary Activities in the Middle Ages: Translation and Exchange -- Theories of Disease and Types of Healing -- How to Use This Book -- 1 Animal Healing in Sacred Societies, 1500-1700 -- Introduction |
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Animals in Medieval and Early Modern Sacred Societies -- Early Theories of Animal Health and Disease -- The Americas -- East Asia -- South Asia -- Mediterranean Region and Arabic World (Near East) -- The Islamic Scholarly Tradition -- New Ideas: Breaking from the Ancient Traditions -- Ars nova: Anatomy in Europe -- Differentiating Animals and Humans -- Conclusions -- 2 Animal Healing in Trade and Conquest, 1700-1850s -- Introduction -- Ecological Exchange: Natives, Newcomers, and Invaders -- The Americas, Western Africa, and Europe -- East and South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe |
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Competing Cosmologies and Beliefs about Human-Animal Relationships -- How Bodies Functioned in Health and Disease: European Physiology -- The Science of Suffering: European Pathology -- Trade and Conquest: Responding to Animal Disease Outbreaks -- Zulu Disease Causation Theories -- The Cordon Sanitaire -- Epizootic Diseases: Rinderpest, Foot and Mouth Disease, and Sheep Pox -- Rinderpest, the Cattle Killer -- Lancisi's Principles -- Controlling Rinderpest -- Foot and Mouth Disease and Sheep Pox -- Disease of Trade: Anthrax -- Disease of War: Glanders |
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Warfare and the History of Veterinary Surgery -- War Animals: Horses -- Quick, Clean, and Kind: Surgery in Animal Healing -- Conclusions -- 3 Formal Education for Animal Healing: From Riding Schools to Veterinary Schools, 1700-1850 -- Introduction -- How Veterinary Education Emerged from the ''Enlightenment'' in France -- The Natural History Tradition -- Enlightenment Pragmatism: The Economic Value of Animals -- Competing for a Position in the Veterinary Marketplace -- Every Man His Own Veterinarian -- Shoeing-Smiths and Other Proto-veterinarians |
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Justifying Veterinary Education: Military Horses and Warfare -- Aristocratic and Military Use of the Horse -- Riding Schools -- Justifying Veterinary Education: The Great Animal Plagues, Revisited -- Establishment and Spread of Veterinary Schools -- 1762: Lyon, France -- The Veterinary ''Meme'': How French-Style Veterinary Education Propagated around the World -- Veterinary Education Moving beyond Western Europe, 1800-1850 -- The Imperial Veterinary Education Model in Northern Africa and the New World -- Professionalization of Veterinary Medicine in the Industrial Era |
| Summary |
"From Ayurvedic texts to botanical medicines to genomics, ideas and expertise about veterinary healing have circulated between cultures through travel, trade, and conflict. In this broad-ranging and accessible study spanning 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing. Drawing on inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book addresses how attitudes toward animals, disease causation theories, wars, problems of food insecurity and the professionalization and spread of European veterinary education have shaped new domains for animal healing, such as preventive medicine in intensive animal agriculture and the need for veterinarians specializing in zoo animals, wildlife, and pets. It concludes by considering the politicization of animal protection, changes in the global veterinary workforce, and concerns about disease and climate change. As mediators between humans and animals, veterinarians and other animal healers have both shaped, and been shaped by, the social, cultural, and economic roles of animals over time"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Veterinary medicine -- History
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Animals -- Diseases -- History
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Veterinary Medicine -- history
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Animal Diseases -- history
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Animals -- Diseases.
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Veterinary medicine.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koolmees, Peter A., author.
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| LC no. |
2022011766 |
| ISBN |
9781108354929 |
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1108354920 |
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