In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.

In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.