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The field of veterinary medicine has long been overlooked by the humanities and the social sciences. Meanwhile, also due to the emergence of the interdisciplinary human-animal studies as well as the growing discourse of veterinary ethics, more and more research is looking at veterinary issues from the perspective of the humanities /social sciences. 

This network aims to connect fellow researchers and scholars working on topics surrounding veterinary medicine. These are, including but not limited, scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy or veterinary medicine itself who look at the discipline/the profession from other than only the natural scientific angle.

 If you want to join the networks email-list please subscribe here (if you already have an google-account) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/veterinary-humanities  or send an email to veterinary.medicine.studies[att]gmail.com with a request to be added. 

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Conference Program

Doing Animal Health in more-than-human Worlds First (digital) Conference for the Network of Veterinary Humanities Messerli Research Institute, University of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna October 8-9th 2020 Program Central European Time (CET)/UTC +2 Thursday, 8th of October 11:30am-12am      Welcome by Julia Gutjahr & Kerstin Weich 12am-01pm         Keynote Ludek Broz (Prague, Czech Republic)- Veterinarization of the Future and its Zoonotic Limits 01-02:30pm      Panel 1 Chair: Else Vogel Karen Hiestand (Sussex, UK) - “What would you do if it was your cat?” The Autonomy Principle in Veterinary Ethics Mariessa Long (Vienna, Austria) -The concept of quality of life for horses Marc Bubeck (Munich, Germany) - ‘Veterinarians are the protectors of animals’. Caring and killing as a constructive element of veterinary professionalism of veterinary students in Germany ---- break ----- 03-04:30pm      Panel 2 Chair: Julia Gutjahr Pru Hobson-Wes

Post-Conference Update

The recordings of the presentations can be received by writing an email request to the individual speakers. We left it for them to decide, if they want to publish  or distribute their recording. The first (online-)conference of the Network for Veterinary Humanities was a successful event, nonetheless to our wonderful speakers. With different backgrounds such as philosophy, sociology, literature studies and anthropology the speakers covered a wide range of topics. At the end of each panel, we had fruitful discussions, also together with scholars, who attended the online conference as listeners. In our final discussion round, perspectives for the future of veterinary humanities were elaborated. We are looking forward to the things to come, and to a 2nd conference, that is planned for the future. 

"Towards a More-than-Human Medical Humanities: An Invitation and Provocation" - Essay by Jane Desmond

Have you ever done a CAT scan on a cat? When we hear the term “medical humanities,” we usually think of humans, but the post-humanist turn in the humanities alerts us that we live and practice in a more-than-human world .[i]   Over the next few essays, I’ll share perspectives and provocations for our thinking in the medical humanities that can come from the world of veterinary medicine.   further reading