Rethinking One Health : emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages
Abstract
One Health perspectives are growing in influence in global health. One Health is presented as being inherently interdisciplinary and integrative, drawing together human, animal and environmental health into a single gaze. Closer inspection, however, reveals that this presentation of entanglement is dependent upon an apolitical understanding of three pre-existing separate conceptual spaces that are brought to a point of connection. Drawing on research with livestock keepers in northern Tanzania, in the context of the history of livestock policy in colonial and postcolonial East Africa, this demonstrates what an extended model of One Health - one that moves from bounded human, animal and environmental sectors to co-constitutive assemblages - can do to create a flexible space that is inclusive of the multiplicity of health.
Citation
Davis , A & Sharp , J 2020 , ' Rethinking One Health : emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages ' , Social Science and Medicine , vol. 258 , 113093 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113093
Publication
Social Science and Medicine
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0277-9536Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
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The authors would like to thank colleagues on the Social, Economic and Environmental Drivers of Zoonoses in Tanzania (SEEDZ) project, One Health focused research funded by the UK Department for International Development and the UK Research Councils (project code: BB/L018926/1).Collections
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