One world, one health? Social science engagements with the one health agenda

Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research

“…The 'One-health' literature is medical in its orientation, and has not engaged with the social sciences (Craddock & Hinchliffe, 2015;Wolf, 2015). This is confirmed in the analysis of the key cited publications within this cluster, which are all published in medical and veterinary journals.…”

“…'Onehealth' is a call for interdisciplinary research and practice regarding the global and interspecies aspects of health and illness in the context of travel as well as declining habitats for nonhuman, non-domesticated animal species (Craddock & Hinchliffe, 2015;Wolf, 2015); it is embedded in the history of comparative medicine. The most frequently shared references in this cluster (see Supplementary Material, Table 3) give insight into the key publications within this paradigm, and highlight its orientation toward medical science (that includes veterinary medicine).…”

“…The increased interest in zoonotic diseases accounts for some of the rise in research regarding nonhuman species within public health. High profile zoonotic diseases such as SARS or H1N1 have been a stimulus for this area of research (see also Craddock & Hinchliffe, 2015;Porter, 2015). The heightened concern with zoonotic diseases is The focus in this strand of the literature is to understand the pathways through which diseases cross species.…”

“…The neglect of the critical posthumanist literature within public health is not surprising, given the concerns of the 'One-health' paradigm and its perceptions of the social sciences. For example, the 'One-health' paradigm has been critiqued for its reliance upon the deficit model, wherein the role of the social sciences is limited to helping to communicate scientific and medical truths to an uninformed public (Craddock & Hinchliffe, 2015). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Interest in nonhuman animals within public health has been informed by the discursive practices of the 'One-health' paradigm, as opposed to the discursive practices of 'posthumanism'.…”

One Health for a changing world: new perspectives from Africa

“…economic and social drivers of disease emergence and spread; and in relation to who is affected, and the impacts on poverty, inequality, vulnerability and well-being [28,29].…”