In another of Veterinary Record 's series articles on One Health, Abigail Woods and Michael Bresalier discuss the complex history veterinary‐medical collaboration highlight social, political institutional factors that have contributed towards shaping Health model

This paper counters the tendency to retrospectively viralise 1918–19 pandemic and gloss important historiographical point that, in Britain, such knowledge was in-the-making between 1918 1933. It traces genesis of influenza's virus identity British efforts specify cause it examines how, 1920s, Medical Research Council used connection a justify development research make influenza core problem around which organised. shows that organisation medical inextricably linked before actual discovery...

Abstract This paper examines the successful campaign in Britain to develop canine distemper vaccine between 1922 and 1933. The mobilized disparate groups around common cause of using modern science save nation's dogs from a deadly disease. Spearheaded by landed patricians associated with country journal Field , funded dog owners associations, it relied on collaborations veterinary professionals, government scientists, Medical Research Council (MRC) commercial pharmaceutical house Burroughs...

This article explores the decisive role of British military medicine in shaping official approaches to 1918 influenza pandemic. It contends that were defined through a system pathology, which had been established by War Office as part mobilization for First World War. Relying on bacteriological laboratory identification and control pathogenic agents, pathology delivered therapeutic preventive measures against range battlefield diseases, civilian authorities trusted it could do same with...

Mark Harrison, The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xv + 346, £65.00/$125.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-957582-4. - Volume 56 Issue 1