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Names: Deem, Sharon L., 1963– author. | Lane‐deGraaf, Kelly E., 1977– author. | Rayhel, Elizabeth A., 1957– author.
Title: Introduction to one health : an interdisciplinary approach to planetary health / Sharon L. Deem, Kelly E. Lane‐deGraaf, Elizabeth A. Rayhel.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018029674 (print) | LCCN 2018031568 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119382836 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119382850 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119382867 (paperback)
Subjects: | MESH: One Health | Ecosystem | Environmental Health
Classification: LCC RA418 (ebook) | LCC RA418 (print) | NLM WA 30.7 | DDC 362.1–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018029674
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To our children Aoife, Caleb, Charlie, Laura, and Saoirse, and to the readers of this book, whose actions shape Planetary Health.
A Foreword by Daniel M. Ashe
President & CEO, Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Former Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service (2011–2017)
In the introduction to their visionary textbook, authors Sharon Deem, Kelly Lane‐deGraaf, and Elizabeth Rayhel quote Abraham Lincoln: “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” With this book, they take a giant leap in creating a future where we recognize and respect, and where our institutions and actions more fully reflect the interrelationships between humans, animals, and the environment – a philosophy called One Health.
The twentieth century was marked by tremendous progress in our understanding of the environment, and the effect of human economy and ecology. We built great institutions, framed in academic disciplines like biology, ecology, hydrology, forestry, oceanography, engineering, and the many medical sciences and disciplines. We split the world into wetlands, prairies, forests, farm, ranch, range, rivers, lakes and oceans; and fish, and mammals, and insects, and plants. And we built great corresponding institutions, like the one where I served for 22 years, the last six as its director: The US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Leaders and visionaries, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Olaus, and Mardy Murie, and David Suzuki have long inspired us to think beyond our disciplinary training and our institutional boundaries. New interdisciplinary disciplines have emerged, but they suffer a common infirmity. They are disciplines themselves.
One Health is more philosophy than discipline. It incorporates human, animal, and environmental health as inherently interrelated, interdependent, and inseparable. The authors, at once, respect and encourage disciplinary scientific expertise, but recognize that evidence‐based science is not enough. They recognize that driving societal change requires that science be packaged in ways that fit into a broad milieu of cultural, religious, political, and economic beliefs. Their text is a roadmap to follow in pursuing Leonardo da Vinci's notion of a complete mind: “Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Their writing is clear, concise, and compelling. It helps us to see that our health, indeed, is connected to everything around us. They use historical examples from Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition up the Mississippi River, to modern‐day Ebola outbreaks. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is linked to infectious diseases that devastated native peoples, mercury contamination, westward expansion, slavery, economic development, and modern‐day environmental inequity and injustice. Their work is a literal melting pot, mixing all the complexity of today's global economy and ecology, pouring it into a conceptual mold that allows us to more effectively aggregate human, animal, and environmental health into One Health.
One Health is about connection. It is about the recognition that humans, animals, and environment are indivisible. It is about humility, unintended consequences, and the fact that decisions that we make today will shape the immediate and the distant future. It is about finding solutions by looking for something beyond traditional notions of interdisciplinary coordination – what the authors call a transdisciplinary approach.
One thing is certain. We cannot address the interrelated challenges of climate change, pollution, extinction, biodiversity loss, invasive species, infectious diseases, poverty, injustice, and inequality with the same approaches of the past. We cannot just continue to seek better coordination between disparate disciplines and institutions. We've known for decades that human, animal, and environmental health are linked. The canary in the coal mine is an adage that recognizes it explicitly. Coal miners knew that their environment, and ultimately their health, could be safeguarded by a sensitive, sentinel bird. One Health expands this simple concept to reflect twenty‐first century complexities and opportunities.
One Health is a powerful introductory text. Let's hope it inspires a new generation of One Health professionals, in diverse fields throughout the sciences and humanities, to envision and create a future where we link human, animal, and environmental health. Our future prosperity depends on it.
The authors have many people to thank for logistical and personal support of this textbook. We thank the staff, volunteers, and students of the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine, with special thanks to Kathy Zeigler, Jamie Palmer, Kathleen Apakupakul, Carol Gronau, and Karen Jordan. Saint Louis Zoo staff members Shawn Lofgren, Kayla Rogers, and Stephen Leard, for providing valuable assistance with recording and editing of the audio interviews, and Fontbonne University staff members Elizabeth Brennan and Anna LeRoy for the cover design, and the Fontbonne University Center for One Health logo. We thank the Fontbonne University students in the Honors Seminar in One Health and the Conservation Medicine courses during the 2016–2017 academic year for providing the case studies presented in the text, and Fontbonne student, Leann Smith for her help in obtaining permissions for use of figures. We appreciate the support and belief in One Health shown by administrators from both of our institutions, especially Adam Weyhaupt and Mike Pressimone of Fontbonne University and Jeffrey Bonner, Eric Miller, and Michael Macek of the Saint Louis Zoo. We also thank Kyle, Harry, and Steve, and our extended families, for supporting us during our One Health journeys and especially during the writing of this book. Lastly, we thank the scientists and civil servants who have dedicated their careers, and in many instances their lives, to advancing a holistic approach to planetary health. In the current uncertain and challenging political climate that many of us face, we encourage them to continue with this invaluable work.
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