{"id":153,"date":"2024-04-03T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/one-health\/?p=153"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:47:00","slug":"archival-research-on-bacterial-infections-part-1-one-health-one-welfare-and-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/one-health\/2024\/04\/03\/archival-research-on-bacterial-infections-part-1-one-health-one-welfare-and-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Archival Research on Bacterial Infections, Part 1: One Health, One Welfare and Tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I introduce my short research project on bacterial infections, with specific focus on tuberculosis (TB) as a zoonotic disease; these are diseases that can move from one animal species (including humans) to another. After spending two and a half months immersed in archival materials, I realised that this focus provided a good means to explore different ideas of animal welfare and how welfare was implicated in public health issues between 1915 and 1945.<\/p>\n

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The OneKind archives in store at the CRC<\/p><\/div>\n

The Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and OneKind animal charity (formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection or SSPV), all approached infectious disease management in ways that defined welfare and cruelty differently. While I revealed these differences in my research, I also considered whether espoused ideas could be seen as precursors to contemporary conceptions of One Health or One Welfare. Here I’ll share a quick introduction to One Health and One Welfare and a bit of background about TB in the UK. Later this week, I’ll share my findings on this topic based on archival research.<\/p>\n

What do we mean by One Health and One Welfare?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The concept of One Health (OH) was first referred to in 2003 as response or means to address the public health threat of zoonotic diseases. OH has been championed primarily by veterinarians (Cassidy 2018). <\/span>The international One Health High Level Expert Panel developed a globally recognised definition:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.\u00a0 It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.’ <\/em>(Mettenleiter et al<\/span><\/span> 2023)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But One Health has been criticised for being too anthropocentric and not adequately attending to animal welfare and wellbeing (Lindenmayer and Kaufman 2021). One Welfare is meant as a corrective and<\/span>\u00a0focus<\/span>es<\/span> on interconnections between animal<\/span> welfare and <\/span>wellbeing<\/span>, human <\/span>wellbeing<\/span> and the environment<\/span>, thus extending <\/span>the One Health <\/span>focus only on healt<\/span>h (Pinillos 2018). <\/span><\/span>The One Welfare Framework, developed by <\/span>Pinillos (2018)<\/span>, includes <\/span>themes that<\/span>\u00a0give equal<\/span> or at least greater<\/span> consideration to animals alongside humans in environments. T<\/span>hese themes include:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n