Summary
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the One Health initiative has been widely endorsed by politicians and scientists alike, highlighting the interdependence between human, animal and environmental health, and bringing these disciplines together around a single approach. Putting One Health into practice now leads to reflect on the integration of other forms of health knowledge, in particular that of local communities.
Drawing on his fieldwork experiences in Asia, Nicolas Lainé shows that local knowledge is dynamic and constantly in recomposition. He highlights the contribution of certain local practices to health risk prevention. Reduced to the provision of information or data, the holders of this “other” knowledge are often excluded from the knowledge production process. On the contrary, the author proposes to integrate all the richness and complexity of relationships with living beings into a networking of local human and non-human knowledge, considering all stakeholders as full partners in research.
Starting with the promises and rise to power of the One Health approach, this book takes a broader look at what makes science.
Read the foreword - Laurence Guilloteau
Table of contents
Preface : One health. Opening up to other forms of knowledge
Introduction: What is One Health?
1. What is the One Health approach heir to?
1.1 Controlling humans and animals in colonial times
1.2 Animal surveillance and the negation of local knowledge
1.3. Decolonizing health knowledge
2. What is local knowledge made of?
2.1. A shared knowledge between humans and elephants in Asia
2.2. Knowledge co-constructed in interaction with other existing knowledge
2.3. Anthropology to access and account for local knowledge
3. How can we better integrate the practical experience of local communities into the One Health approach?
3.1. An ethical approach based on pluralistic values
3.2 Networking knowledge
3.3 Considering herders as research partners
Conclusion: Relocating One Health, rethinking scientific practice
Discussion
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