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ANIMALS, DISEASE AND HUMAN SOCIETY
In recent years, the issue of animal disease has seldom been out of the headlines. The emergence of BSE and the threat of food-borne infections such as E.coli and salmonella have focused public attention on the impact of animal disease on human society. However, the problem of animal disease is far from new. Animals, Disease and Human Society explores thehistory and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from a historical and sociological perspective, Joanna Swabe’s work discusses such issues as: • animal domestication; • the consequences of the human exploitation of other animals, including links between human and animal disease; • the rise of a veterinary regime, designed toprotect humans and animals alike; • the 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. All those interested in human-animal relationships or in public health issues will findAnimals, Disease and Human Society a thought-provoking and rewarding work. Joanna Swabe is a Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated to the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
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ANIMALS, DISEASE AND HUMAN SOCIETY
Human-animal relations and the rise of veterinary medicine

Joanna Swabe

London and New York

First published 1999 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. "To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis orRoutledge's collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk." Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1999 Joanna Swabe All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, includingphotocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Animals, disease and human society: human-animal relations and the rise of veterinary medicine/JoannaSwabe. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1 Veterinary medicine—History. 2. Domestic animals—Social aspects—History 3. Human—animal relations—History. 4. Zoonoses—History. I. Title SF 615.5935 1998 98–25860 636.089`09–dc21 CIP AC ISBN 0-203-02897-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-20053-5 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-415-18193-3 (Print Edition)

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 1 2 3 4 56 7 Introduction Domestication, dependency and disease Animals, disease and human social life: from ancient times to the early modern period The unfolding veterinary regime The intensification of livestock production and the veterinary regime during the twentieth century Pandering to pets: pet-keeping and the emergence of small-animal practice Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index vi 1 14 3864 88 116 143 154 159 163 178

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Every book has its own history. This one originally began life as a doctoral dissertation at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam under the title of The Burden of Beasts. While researching and writing this volume I benefited greatly from the moral support and practical advice provided by all my friends and...