One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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Technological advances in the diagnosis and analysis of naturally occurring disease mean that for the first time in history the end point of the study of disease does not need to involve the death of an animal.

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A two-way street between human and veterinary medicine is both possible and necessary for humans and animals to benefit equitably from cutting edge advances and to save time, save money and save lives. Finally the implications of these findings for our understanding of the OH agenda and of interdisciplinary agenda building more generally will be discussed.

Therefore following the terminology of OH can be particularly productive, given that defining the meaning and origins of OH appears to be a key concern among its own advocates.

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However, following this early period the term was rarely used in health contexts until it resurfaced during the 1990s, in health policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as academic discussions of “emerging infectious diseases,” and the transition from “international” to “global” health ( Anderson 2004; King 2004). We owe animals so much, it's time to focus on examining how they live and what we still have to learn from them.However, as Star (2010) later discussed, boundary objects are not simply words with multiple meanings: they must be understood as the product of ongoing processes of social negotiation, and tend to operate at the scale of organizations, rather than in the details of interpersonal relationships or larger social structures. K.-based Veterinary Record, and Veterinaria Italiana, which published an open-access special issue devoted to the topic.

One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

It is clear that authors were starting to use OH as a standalone term from 2008, and following the FAO/WHO/OIE joint statement in 2010, OH overtook its predecessors and became adopted much more widely. However, the concept of One Health, as we presently know it, originated from One Medicine, a notion which is much older and which emerged to promote collaboration between the human and veterinary medicine professions and the allied health/scientific disciplines.However, vets and doctors continued to work together under the right circumstances, and the insights from such collaborations, alongside the financial and status benefits, particularly for veterinarians, provided powerful incentives to do so. Animals in Surgery-Surgery in Animals: Nature and Culture in Animal-Human Relations and Modern Surgery.