Humans, Other Animals and ‘One Health’ in the Early Twenty-First Century

Cassidy, Angela

These anthropocentric contradictions may be related to ongoing anxieties about the ability of OH to move 'from rhetoric to reality'. 103 As both advocates and observers have noted, OH has tended to flip from very broad generalities to specific 'success stories', but with little discussion of how researchers, policy-makers and clinicians might move from one to the other. 104 The analysis presented here suggests that these problems persist at the level of research practice. yet OH continues to be mobilized in international health. Over the past two years the WHO has published strategies for action on antimicrobial resistance and rabies elimination, which both prominently reference OH as a conceptual support for coordinating across organizations in human and animal health. 105 Time will tell what impact such activities have on the roles that animals perform in OH, on how OH is practised, and on how it presents itself to the wider world.