Open AccessTHE BIOECONOMICS OF DOMESTICATING ZOONOSES
Author(s) -
GREEN SARAH
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca37.1.05
Subject(s) - bioeconomics , zoonosis , environmental ethics , political science , biology , virology , philosophy , fishery
The majority of diseases that afflict humans are shared by nonhuman animals, and three‐quarters of emerging diseases do so. People have known this for centuries, understanding that diseases traveled the same routes as did traders, migrants, and soldiers. Zoonosis is a process that involves the movement of a pathogen from a nonhuman animal body to a human animal body, which then triggers disease. In the past, this reality mostly served as an impediment to the bioeconomics of working with animals; in more recent years, research on zoonoses has turned animals into part of bioeconomic logic in themselves.