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One Health und das Tier-Mensch-Verhältnis:
macht der Mensch die Tiere krank? (2021)

Art

Buchbeitrag

Autor

Gruber, Achim D. (WE 12)

Quelle

Was ist Gesundheit? : Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur — Herausgegeben von Philip van der Eijk, Detlev Ganten und Roman Marek (Hrsg.)

1. Auflage

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Humanprojekt ; Band 18 — S. 291–311

ISBN: 978-3-11-071319-0

Verweise

URL (Volltext): https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110713336-020/html

DOI: 10.1515/9783110713336

Kontakt

Institut für Tierpathologie

Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 15
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62450
pathologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

One Health and Human-Animal Relationships: Do We Make Our Animals Sick? Since the very beginning of human-animal relationships, humankind took advantage of animals, as of nature in general. While many people today perceive themselves as animal-loving, in reality we tend to systematically deprive our farm animals and pets of their own nature and health. On our quest to perfect our exploitation of the animal world,we reached a dimension that started to profoundly worry veterinary professionals, animal welfare activists, and also the informed public. Ultimately, this destructive relationship leads to detrimental consequences for both parties: e.g., the extinction of wild animals, or the transmission of diseases from one to the other. However, one could argue that the suffering we cause to animals clearly and by far exceeds the harm caused by, for example,the animal-derivedCOVID-19. Is this a too provocative hypothesis? This article is an invitation to take a closer look at various facets of our current human-animal relationship with its consequences for both.