One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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One Medicine is the concept whereby human and animal healthcare advance hand in hand with vets, doctors and researchers collaborating to ensure that all humans and animals benefit from equal and sustainable medical progress but not at the expense of an animal’s life. Fujimura Joan. Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1996. Perhaps the most widely used working definition is the one put forward by the One Health Initiative, a U.S.-based advocacy group including veterinarians, physicians, and public and environmental health professionals: “The One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment” ( Kahn et al. 2012). This definition is strikingly broad, promoting “interdisciplinary collaboration” without specifying who should be collaborating with whom and on what, or indeed how they should actually go about it. This is reflected in varying references to OH as a “concept,” as illustrated earlier, but also as an “approach,” a “movement,” and even a “paradigm.” In recent years, the language of OH has been adopted by a series of powerful actors in biomedicine and global health, including the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC 2013), international organizations including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), and World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) ( FAO et al. 2008, 2010), and the biomedical research funders Wellcome Trust (2010) and Gates Foundation (2013).

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One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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Figure 1.. Schematic outline diagram indicating the relationship and differences between the concepts of One… Current education, policy and funding are not structured to support collaboration between human and veterinary medicine. Humanimal Trust exists to change this, to ensure medical progress is made equally and sustainably for humans and animals moving forward. Woods Abigail, Bresalier Michael. One Health, Many Histories. Veterinary Record. 2014; 174:650–654. [ PubMed : 24970632] Schwabe Calvin W. Veterinary Medicine and Human Health. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1984. [1964] His articles have featured in the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Mirror and Huffington Post. A regular writer for the internationally acclaimed British Medical Journal, his article 'A letter from the ICU'is one of their most popular ever opinion article, read by over 130,000 people in 2020.

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