Abigail Woods / Rachel Mason Dentinger / Angela Cassidy / Michael Bresalier
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
- Springer International Publishing
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 300 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319741185
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 reveals that what we think of as ¿human¿ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of Britain¿s zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California and Beirut, they illuminate the
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