Context matters: Leveraging anthropology within one health

Steffens, Travis S.; Finnis, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100393

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“…Aside from prediction and quantification, the social sciences can be applied to interpret , to empower , and to deconstruct , depending on one’s philosophical position on how knowledge is acquired and treated ( 24 ). In this sense, anthropology has historically enjoyed some engagement with OH, although its recognition as a key partner in OH is also yet to be fully realized ( 25 ).…”

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Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health?

Carter,

Mankad,

Okello

2024

Front. Public Health

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At its core, One Health promotes multidisciplinary cooperation amongst researchers and practitioners to improve the effectiveness and management of complex problems raised by the interplay of human, animal and environment interactions. Contemporary One Health literature has identified reducing disciplinary barriers as key to progress in the field, along with addressing the notable absence of social sciences from One Health frameworks, among other priorities. Efforts to position social scientists as experts on behaviour change and health decision-making has helped to articulate a concrete role for progressing One Health collaborations. Yet, there are other equally valuable functions the social scientist has in understanding complex systems, like One Health. We make explicit the multiple and diverse knowledge contributions the social sciences and humanities can make to progressing the One Health agenda. Articulating these more clearly invites a broader set of interdisciplinary perspectives to One Health discussions, allowing for stronger connections between sectors, actors, disciplines, and sub-systems. This perspective piece identifies a range of entry points for researchers and practitioners to better utilize the potential contributions social sciences and humanities scholars can make to One Health goals.

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Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health?

Carter,

Mankad,

Okello

2024

Front. Public Health

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“…The artificial barriers between natural and social sciences reifies the erroneous idea that anthropologists work with symbolic and interpretative matters while the sciences observe reality (Smart and Smart 2017, 46). The multi-disciplinary approach that is championed by the "one health" movement could be made more effective if the social sciences were included more significantly in this collaborative approach (Steffens and Finnis 2022). It is not a coincidence that the contemporary state of disease on planet Earth has led anthropologists to explore in depth the same cultural elements that are surfacing within public health studies.…”

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“…While the social sciences have had some involvement in the "one health" movement, if contemporary anthropological theory were more strongly leveraged, it could make these programs more effective (Steffens and Finnis 2022;Wolf 2015, 6). Recent developments in environmental anthropology have influenced medical anthropologists to reconceptualize non-humans as more than just existing in the background.…”

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Connecting Humans and Non-Humans

LaBrie

2023

pathways

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A recent trend in public health campaigns has been to include non-human health data to capture all relevant variables related to human well-being. This specific approach is the foundation of the World Health Organization restructuring in the early 2000s as they adopted the “one health” framework. Politically, this movement is influential and draws significant health funding globally. "One health" is characterized by a multi-disciplinary collaboration between medical, veterinary, and health sciences. Similarly, the post-human turn in medical anthropology recognizes that viewing the non-human contributions to the cultural construction of health as symbolic does not adequately address how non-humans and nature independently contribute to human health realities. Ethnographic studies of the non-human perspective shed light on how humans are not the only beings that influence culturally constructed reality, nor are they exclusively in control of cultural phenomena. Theoretical trends in anthropology and public health seemingly converge; however, an artificial academic barrier between the sciences and social sciences remains. As these two disciplines are coming closer together through their data, breaking down structural barriers that prevent the successful integration of knowledge has potential to improve human health outcomes. Methodological concessions will have to occur on all sides to make the inclusion of the social sciences in public health possible. Doing so can bring academia closer to a comprehensive scientific understanding of human health.

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“…It is also significant that OH arose out of zoonotic science regarding the animal origins of many infectious diseases (Craddock and Hinchliffe 2015;Hinchliffe 2014;Steffens and Finnis 2022), for example, the influenzas, HIV and Ebola. Its alignment with zoonotic disease somewhat obscures how AMR is associated with the human use of antimicrobial pharmaceuticals.…”

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Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility

Davis,

Schermuly,

Rajkhowa

et al. 2024

Soc Theory Health

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This paper investigates One Health (OH) applied to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to deepen and nuance its conceptual underpinnings and inform effective implementation. We consider how models of OH and AMR wedded to bioscience assumptions of life obscure biosocial complexity and reinforce the misleading assumption that scientific knowledge of AMR is generated outside social systems. With reference to in-depth interviews with medical practitioners, scientists and policy-makers working on AMR in Australia and the UK, we explore accounts of OH action on AMR. We show that the implementation of OH is subject to some fragmentation due to workforce organisation, funding arrangements and the absence of detailed guidance for translating OH into practice. Despite OH aspirations for transdisciplinary cooperation and innovation, human-centrism and somewhat incommensurable professional and scientific views on OH constrain trust in the policy approach and limit effective action. We discuss how, in some settings, OH action on AMR does resemble policy aspirations when emphasis is placed on collaborative humility, a finding that underlines OH’s biosocial character. We argue for the development of more robust biosocial models of OH to guide its application to AMR in real world settings.

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Context matters: Leveraging anthropology within one health

Cited by 9 publications

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Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health?

Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health?

Connecting Humans and Non-Humans

Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility

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