Joanna Swabe

Animals, Disease and Human Society

Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses our relationship with other animals and the rise of veterinary medicine, posing important questions about the increasing intensification of animal use for both animal and human health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780415181938
• ISBN-10: 0415181933
• Artikelnr.: 21645345

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  2. Domestication, Dependency and
Disease  3. Animals, Disease and Human Social Life: From Ancient Times to
the Early Modern Period  4. The Unfolding Veterinary Regime  5. The
Intensification of Livestock Production and the Veterinary Regime during
the Twentieth Century  6. Pandering to Pets: Pet-keeping and the Emergence
of Small Animal Practice  7. Epilogue. Appendix.