Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Comparative Neuropathology (1962): Attending to Neuropathologies Across Multiple Species.
- Journal:
- Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Schoefert, Anna Kathryn
- Affiliation:
- King's College London · United Kingdom
Plain-English summary
This paper discusses a book from 1962 that looks at how different animals, including pets and wild species, experience nervous system diseases and injuries. It highlights how the study of these conditions has changed since World War II, with a focus on both veterinary and human medicine. The book includes cases of sick farm animals, poisoned cats, and injured dogs, showing how understanding these issues can help improve medical practices for both animals and humans. Overall, it emphasizes the growing connection between veterinary and human medical fields in addressing neurological problems.
Abstract
This paper takes as its subject Comparative Neuropathology (1962), arguing that the volume illustrates the interlocking cultures of veterinary medicine, human medicine, and laboratory-based biological sciences after the Second World War. The project amassed cases of domestic, experimental, and wild animals, identified species-specific conditions, and evaluated the vulnerabilities of the nervous system to disease and trauma. The collection of ill ruminants, poisoned cats, and injured dogs built on earlier traditions of comparative medicine, but also reflected the turn to biological principles to explain medical conditions, increased industry and military funding for the biomedical sciences, and changes in veterinary practice. Using Comparative Neuropathology as a lens, this paper probes the actors, affiliations, and frameworks that wrestled with new species of neurological patients, newly exposed vulnerabilities of the nervous system, and the emergence of new neurological sciences, casting new light on the heterogenous landscape of the emergent neurosciences and mid-twentieth-century efforts to entwine human and veterinary medicine.
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