agendas may instead be mutually reinforcing. Jointly, they could be described as part of a collective response to a (re)-emerging set of highly complex concerns which extend across traditional disciplinary boundaries – over environmental damage, climate change and scarce resources, food availability and disease/health (Bardosh, 2016; Cairns and Krzywoszynska, 2016; Cassidy, 2016; Felt et al., 2016; Harrison et al., 2019; Senanayake and King, 2019) and finally, how animals contribute to shape modern medicine (Cassidy et al., 2017; Woods et al., 2018; Kirk et al., 2019; Koch, 2019; Schoefert, 2019). This is the arena in which the future of One Health will be forged, but in looking ahead, we should not forget its multiple historical precedents, and their influence on the present.
Notes
1 For another balanced historical perspective on this topic, see Kirk and Worboys (2011).
2 Numerous papers on this topic were delivered to the 2012 Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. For a summary see Woods (2012).
3 Today Pennsylvania Vet School has its own trademarked slogan, ‘Many Species, One Medicine’TM, attributed broadly to another 19th-century ‘founding father’, Benjamin Rush MD (Hendricks et al., 2009).
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