About this
blog
This is a
weblog for data, opinions, anecdotes, and remarkable facts from the Philosophy
and History of Animal Science and other issues in the field of biomedical
science.
My main
interest at this moment is mastitis,
the inflammation of the udder of ruminants (cows and goats mainly).
The history
of mastitis may go as far back as possible
although the more exciting developments may take place after 1880.
The philosophy
of mastitis may deal with everything that is concerned with questions of the
reliability of biomedical knowledge of this disease and others and with the social
influences on this knowledge. In the case of mastitis it may not be surprising
that economy is one of those influences.
I hope the
reader may find it interesting and will be challenged to send comments, other
facts, data, anecdotes and opinions.
Rodin’s Penseur, contemplating the Lion of
Androcles, is, of course, a parody of the Androclus logo of the Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine of Utrecht University of which I was a member for a long time (Henk
Halsema made the drawing).
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