Tiere als Co-Therapeuten: Wenn Katzen bei der Heilung unterstützenWer tiergestützte Therapie hört, denkt nicht unbedingt zuerst an Katzen. Schließlich gelten sie als sehr unabhängige Hausgenossen und dementsprechend oft als ein wenig unnahbar. Die jungen Patient:innen und das medizinische Fachpersonal im Kinderhospiz Lichtblickhof haben ganz andere Erfahrungen gemacht. Hier sind die Stubentiger als Therapiebegleitkatzen gemeinsam mit anderen Vierbeinern in der Ther...

One Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution of One Health collaborations to real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security and vaccination programmes. It includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discus...

The One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathematical models is included. Zoonotic diseases, with discussions of diseases of wildlife, farm animals, domestic pets and humans, and real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security an...

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history. This collection focuses on that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities...