Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

Abigail Woods is Professor of the History of Human and Animal Health and Head of the Department of History at King’s College London, UK.Michael Bresalier is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Swansea University, UK. Angela Cassidy is a Lecturer in the Politics department, University of Exeter, UK.Rachel Mason Dentinger is a Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Instructor at the University of Utah, USA.

“Both historians of medicine and advocates of One Health will benefit from its careful reconstructions of the intertwined histories of human and animal health and its incisive critiques of the conceptual and institutional borders that continue to separate them.” (Etienne S. Benson, Isis, Vol. 111 (2), 2020)“This is a methodologically well-grounded book, full of documentation, on one of the major shifts in animal health history through the centuries. It illustrates a rarely explored aspect of current globalization that goes beyond internationalization, and illustrates the concept of ‘globality’ in the life sciences with the logical consequence of medicine being fundamentally as unitary as life. … a descriptive book that explores the development of a current phenomenon in society.” (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2018)“Animals and the Making of Modern Medicine demonstrates the distance that can be traveled, and the depth of connections that can be revealed, when we break through disciplinary boundaries and challenge the norms that define – and limit – our scholarly pursuits.” (Georgina M. Montgomery, Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 51, 2018)

• 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.