Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine

By Joanna Swabe

This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from an historical and sociological perspective, Joanna Swabe's work discusses such issues as: * animal domestication * the consequences of human exploitation of other animals, including links between human and animal disease * the rise of a veterinary regime, designed to protect humans and animals alike * implications of intensive farming practices, pet-keeping and recent biotechnological developments. This account spans a period of some ten thousand years, and raises important questions about the increasing intensification of animal use for both animal and human health.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138007161
• ISBN13: 9781138007161
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary