the conceptualisation of health and disease in veterinary medicine兽医的范本,健康和疾病.pdf

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Review Open Access The conceptualisation of health and disease in veterinary medicine Stefan Gunnarsson* Address: Section of Animal Hygiene, Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 234, S-532 23 Skara, Sweden Email: Stefan Gunnarsson* - stefan.gunnarsson@hmh.slu.se * Corresponding author Published: 07 November 2006 Received: 30 September 2006 Accepted: 07 November 2006 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48:20 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-20 This article is available from: /content/48/1/20 © 2006 Gunnarsson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The concept of health, as well as the concept of disease, is central in veterinary medicine. However, the definitions health and disease are not generally acknowledged by veterinarians. The aim of this study was to examine how the concepts health and disease are defined in veterinary textbooks. Methods: Veterinary textbooks in several disciplines were investigated, but only textbooks with explicit definitions of the concepts were selected for examination. Results: Eighty out of the 500 relevant books within veterinary medicine were written