Article ID: CBB593874454

Introduction to “Working Across Species” (2018)

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Comparison between different animal species is omnipresent in the history of science and medicine but rarely subject to focussed historical analysis. The articles in the “Working Across Species” topical collection address this deficit by looking directly at the practical and epistemic work of cross-species comparison. Drawn from papers presented at a Wellcome-Trust-funded workshop in 2016, these papers investigate various ways that comparison has been made persuasive and successful, in multiple locations, by diverse disciplines, over the course of two centuries. They explore the many different animal features that have been considered to be (or else made) comparable, and the ways that animals have shaped science and medicine through the use of comparison. Authors demonstrate that comparison between species often transcended the range of practices typically employed with experimental animal models, where standardised practises and apparatus were applied to standardised bodies to produce generalizable, objective data; instead, comparison across species has often engaged diverse groups of non-standard species, made use of subjective inferences about phenomena that cannot be directly observed, and inspired analogies that linked physiological and behavioural characteristics with the apparent affective state of non-human animals. Moreover, such comparative practices have also provided unusually fruitful opportunities for collaborative connections between different research traditions and disciplines.

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Authors & Contributors
Samida, Stefanie
Wehrheim, Lino
Buchner, Michael
Mark Spoerer
Jopp, Tobias A.
Weininger, Stephen J.
Concepts
Historical method
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
History of medicine, as a discipline
Epistemology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Spain
China
Institutions
Science History Institute (SHI)
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