Healing Animals & the Vision of One Health: Earth Care & Human Care

Publisher Marketing: This book provides a new vision, based on sound science and ethics of compassion, which connects the healing of animals with Earth care and the human rights and health care revolution whose time has come. The well-being of animals, wild and domesticated, and the health of the natural environment are found to be inseparable from the health and well-being, and the ultimate fate of our own kith and kin. Written by a veterinarian with doctoral degrees in medicine and animal behavior, and with a lifetime's experience working in animal health, welfare and environmental protection, including agricultural and food safety and public health, this book confronts and challenges the dominant world-view wherein the art and science of animal and human medicine are practiced. Conventional treatments and attitudes toward animals are examined, and the benefits of integrative and preventive medicine in improving the care and health of companion, farmed and wild animals are reviewed. The vision of One Health is framed from a reconsidered science and a renewed understanding of empathy. This is a book for all who care for animals, starting with pet owners seeking to be more informed, professional animal care-providers, including farmers, veterinarians, and veterinary and animal science students, and people who appreciate and respect wild animals. It offers direction and inspiration toward One Health. Contributor Bio:  Fox, Michael W Dr. Michael W. Fox, well-known veterinarian and former vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, reaches millions of readers through the nationally syndicated newspaper column "Animal Doctor" with United Features, and is the author of more than 40 books on animal-related issues, including The Healing Touch for Cats, The New Animal Doctor's Answer Book, and Love Is a Happy Cat. Contributor Bio:  Fox, Michael W Dr. Michael W. Fox, well-known veterinarian and former vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, reaches millions of readers through the nationally syndicated newspaper column "Animal Doctor" with United Features, and is the author of more than 40 books on animal-related issues, including The Healing Touch for Cats, The New Animal Doctor's Answer Book, and Love Is a Happy Cat. Contributor Bio:  Wittbecker, Alan Alan Wittbecker is Senior Design Ecologist with SynGeo ArchiGraph LLC in Florida, where he works on a series of projects in global ecological design. He also teaches Forest Science at the Ecoforestry Institute and Environmental Science at Ringling College. A veteran of the U. S. Air Force, Wittbecker is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer from Bulgaria, where he monitored wolves in the Central Balkan Mountains. He has used his education and interests to explore a spectrum of ecological applications, from research on forest 'pests'-larch casebearers, cedar powderworms, and bears-to the political implications of the protection of species and habitats. When not engaged in preservation activities or thought experiments, he enjoys walking, swimming, reading, and drawing, at the River Farm Forest. You can reach him at: home@eutopias.net