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This article analyzes a phenomenon I call "the invention of animals," that is, the way in which veterinary medicine and the practices of physiology, microbiology and zootechnics produced new and different ways of thinking about, studying, understanding, regulating, legislating, commercializing, exploiting and experiencing "the animal." In particular, the text focuses on the evolution of this phenomenon in Mexico during the nineteenth century, since during this period the impact of these disciplines on animal bodies led to significant changes in the fields of human medicine, public health, and livestock production.
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Medicina Veterinária/história , Criação de Animais Domésticos/história , Animais , História do Século XIX , Humanos , México , Saúde Pública/história , Zoologia/históriaRESUMO
Resumen El artículo reflexiona en torno a un fenómeno que he denominado “la invención de los animales”, es decir, la manera en la que la medicina veterinaria y el ejercicio de la fisiología, la microbiología y la zootecnia produjeron un modo nuevo y distinto de pensar, estudiar, entender, normar, legislar, comercializar, explotar y vivir “lo animal”. Particularmente, el texto se focaliza en el proceso de este fenómeno en el México del siglo XIX, ya que a lo largo de este período el impacto de estas disciplinas sobre el cuerpo de los animales produjo cambios significativos en el campo de la medicina humana, la salud pública y la producción agropecuaria.
Abstract This article analyzes a phenomenon I call “the invention of animals,” that is, the way in which veterinary medicine and the practices of physiology, microbiology and zootechnics produced new and different ways of thinking about, studying, understanding, regulating, legislating, commercializing, exploiting and experiencing “the animal.” In particular, the text focuses on the evolution of this phenomenon in Mexico during the nineteenth century, since during this period the impact of these disciplines on animal bodies led to significant changes in the fields of human medicine, public health, and livestock production.