From more-than-human solidarity to multi-species biographical value

Insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249697
AutoresMelanie Rock (0000-0003-2436-3159, Department of Community Health Sciences Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Canada, autor de correspondencia), Chris Degeling (0000-0003-4279-3443, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence, and Values University of Wollongong Wollongong Australia), Cindy L Adams (Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Canada), Cindy Adams (0000-0003-2390-4347, University of Calgary)
Año2020
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas789-808
Fecha de publicación2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13065
PMID32291790
OpenAlexW3016073667
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas100

This article features a partnership between a veterinary school and a charity that aims to enhance the wellbeing of low-income people. Through this partnership, the charity periodically hosts veterinary clinics for clients and their pets. Even as the veterinarians and veterinary students duly examine people's pets, these pop-up clinics aim to help people and their pets. Hence our analysis revolves around the ethics of 'more-than-human solidarity'. By 'more-than-human solidarity', we mean efforts to help others that either center on or that implicate non-human beings. To delve into the ethical and sociological implications of subsidised veterinary services, and to assist with program planning, we conducted several in-depth interviews with veterinarians. Most substantively, we found that the veterinary school's outreach clinics give rise to multi-species biographical value, which is prized as a pedagogical resource for veterinary students. The veterinarians whom we interviewed felt troubled by the extent to which the pop-up clinics ultimately benefited the veterinary school, but also by the shortage of subsidised veterinary services in the vicinity. Based on these interviews and our own reflections, we invite more scholarship on cultural, economic and political influences that shape the lives of human beings and non-human animals alike

Curriculum · General partnership · Outreach · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Solidarity · Value (mathematics) · Veterinary education · Veterinary medicine · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Medicine · Veterinary Practice and Education Studies · Zoonotic diseases and public health