A concise history of veterinary medicine / Susan D. Jones, Peter A. Koolmees.
"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...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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Table of 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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