Veterinary Medicine and Human Health [Hardcover]

Calvin W. Schwabe (Author)

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• Hardcover: 680 pages
• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins; 3 Sub edition (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0683075942
• ISBN-13: 978-0683075946
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,547,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Veterinary Medicine and Human Health, April 21, 2010

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Dr. Professor Calvin Schwabe was the uppermost example of a scientist, a parasitologist in origin, but also a complete human being and Renaissance man: from Middle-East expert to humanist in general and tremendous chef-de-cuisine in particular. All of this expertise is present in his masterful book Veterinary Medicine and Human Health, reflecting all of these attributes, became the treatise of the concept of Comparative Medicine. This professor of veterinary medicine and creator of the academic field of veterinary preventive medicine pioneered the use of animal illnesses as instruments to tracking techniques in the study of human disease. The emergence of pathogens such mad cow disease, SARS avian and type A H1N1 influenzas have proven him so extraordinarily correct. And of course is the re-emergence, not discovery since they had been discovered years before, of retroviruses, to which the human, and other species, immunodeficiency virus, and Human AIDS (HAIDS), belongs.

According to this marvelous book, no substance, device or procedure should be applied to humans without first passing it through animals. In the same manner no substance, device or procedure should be applied to animals without first considering their effect on humans. This concept has not been held to of late, either. For example, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in farm and domestic animals, for example, is having enormous consequences in the eruption and treatment of antibiotic resistant microorganisms such as, although not only, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The attempt to biologically pseudo-oligarchy-ize the human among species is one of the most pervasive mistakes of modern science. In terms of biology, the study of life and pathology, the study of disease, it has given the false impression of a discrimination that pathogens do not practice. Diseases are quite color-blind, race blind, genre blind, and as we see more and more frequently, species blind. Physicians, in their continued search for glory and power, have considered that, conveniently and very erroneously, human medicine had to be above all other medicines. Professor Schwabe's book shows how Anthropology, the study of human beings, is only one more, and quite minute, branch of zoology, the overall study of the animal kingdom.