Abigail Woods is Professor of the History of Human and Animal Health and Head of the Department of History at King’s College London, UK.Michael Bresalier is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Swansea University, UK. Angela Cassidy is a Lecturer in the Politics department, University of Exeter, UK.Rachel Mason Dentinger is a Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Instructor at the University of Utah, USA.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Centring animals within medical history.- Chapter 2: Doctors in the Zoo: Connecting human and animal health in British zoological gardens, c1828-1890; Abigail Woods.- Chapter 3: From co-ordinated campaigns to water-tight compartments: Diseased sheep and their investigation in Britain, c1880-1920; Abigail Woods.- Chapter 4: From healthy cows to healthy humans: Integrated approaches to world hunger, c1930-65; Michael Bresalier.- Chapter 5: The Parasitological Pursuit: Crossing species and disciplinary boundaries with Calvin W. Schwabe and the Echinococcus tapeworm, 1956-1975; Rachel Mason Dentinger.- Chapter 6: Humans, other animals and ‘One Health’ in the early twenty-first century; Angela Cassidy.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- Appendix: Annotated bibliography.

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