Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

by Angela Cassidy, Michael Bresalier, Rachel Mason Dentinger

Book Overview

This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as 'human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 101327024X
• ISBN13: 9781013270246
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"