Rabies in the streets : interspecies camaraderie in urban India / Deborah Nadal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadal, Deborah, 1985- author.

Series:

Animalibus.

Animalibus: of animals and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabies--India.

Rabies.

Rabies in animals--India.

Rabies in animals.

Urban animals--India.

Urban animals.

Human-animal relationships--India.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages).

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Nadal Deborah : Deborah Nadal is a medical anthropologist specializing in South Asia. As a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, she is currently working at the University of Glasgow and at the Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington.Deborah Nadal is a medical anthropologist specializing in South Asia. As a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, she is currently working at the University of Glasgow and at the Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington.

Summary:

Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of human rabies deaths occur. Deborah Nadal makes the case that only a One Health approach of “interspecies camaraderie” can save people and animals from the horrors of rabies and almost certain death.Grounded in multispecies ethnography, this book leads the reader through the streets and slums of Delhi and Jaipur, where people and animals, such as dogs, cows, and macaques, interact intimately and sometimes violently. Nadal explores the intricate web of factors that bring humans and animals into contact with one another within these urban spaces and create favorable pathways for the transmission of the rabies virus across species. This book shows how rabies is endemic in India for reasons that are as much social, cultural, and political as they are biological, ranging from inadequate sanitation to religious customs, from vaccine shortages to reliance on traditional medicine.The continuous emergence (and reemergence) of infectious diseases despite technical medical progress is a growing concern of our times and clearly questions the way we think of animal and environmental health. This original account of rabies challenges conventional approaches of separation and extermination, arguing instead that a One Health approach is our best chance at fostering mutual survival in a world increasingly overpopulated by humans, animals, and deadly pathogens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Viral Connections

1 Humans

2 Food in the Middle

3 Dogs

4 Macaques

5 Cows

6 Living with Rabies

Conclusion: Interspecies Camaraderie

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271086866

0271086866

9780271086842

027108684X

OCLC:

1253312933