One What? Why GI Researchers Should Know and Care About the One Health Initiative

The One Medicine concept: its emergence from history as a systematic approach to re-integrate human and veterinary medicine

“…Even where species differences occur, parallel animal and human health studies of naturally occurring spontaneous disease can offer much as a useful foundation to inform on the nature of the challenges faced by both human and veterinary medicine. Such a blended approach will be afforded by the emergence of One Medicine as a holistic two-way exchange, Strengthening the links between the two professions will ultimately benefit both, as ‘ a problem shared is a problem halved ' [ 29 ] and thus human and animal health [ 130 ]. As stated by Calvin Schwabe [1984] ‘ the attempt to biologically pseudo-oligarchy-ize the human species is one of the most pervasive mistakes of modern science ' [ 131 ].…”