scholarly journals “One of the Boys”: Women at the Ontario Veterinary College in the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Woodger ◽  
Elizabeth A. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Profession ◽  
Women Veterinarians ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Masculine Culture

For much of the twentieth century, veterinary medicine was a male-dominated profession. This dominance extended to the veterinary schools, which acted as professional gatekeepers. Gender, therefore, was a central organizing principle of the veterinary profession as well as of veterinary education. We argue that the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) was central to the process of professional gatekeeping and was a key site for the training of women veterinarians. Women applying to OVC faced admission practices that favoured male applicants. Those women who were accepted to OVC were met with the masculine culture of veterinary medicine. Despite these difficulties, women actively pursued veterinary training at OVC, including in areas for which they were widely believed to be unsuitable. However, while the number of women at OVC increased during the 1970s and 1980s, the view that women were not suited to veterinary medicine persisted among at least some faculty members.

scholarly journals “One of the Boys”: Women at the Ontario Veterinary College in the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Woodger ◽  
Elizabeth A. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Profession ◽  
Women Veterinarians ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Masculine Culture

For much of the twentieth century, veterinary medicine was a male-dominated profession. This dominance extended to the veterinary schools, which acted as professional gatekeepers. Gender, therefore, was a central organizing principle of the veterinary profession as well as of veterinary education. We argue that the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) was central to the process of professional gatekeeping and was a key site for the training of women veterinarians. Women applying to OVC faced admission practices that favoured male applicants. Those women who were accepted to OVC were met with the masculine culture of veterinary medicine. Despite these difficulties, women actively pursued veterinary training at OVC, including in areas for which they were widely believed to be unsuitable. However, while the number of women at OVC increased during the 1970s and 1980s, the view that women were not suited to veterinary medicine persisted among at least some faculty members.

scholarly journals Moving out of the Attic: Susan Glaspell and the American She-Tragedy

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zaid Ibrahim Ismael ◽  
Jinan Waheed Jassim
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
American Theater ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Susan Glaspell

Midwestern American dramatist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was one of the early voices in the American theater who explored gender issues and woman’s rights at the beginning of the twentieth century. She portrays women in distress, trying to find an outlet from the vicious circle of loneliness and abuse in which they live. Despite the fact that her characters resist oppression and degradation and try to defy the patriarchal authority that restrains them, they are often overwhelmed by this powerful male-dominated system. As a result, they grow defensive and resort to violence and murder in order to avenge themselves from the society that dehumanizes them. They ultimately fall prey to their tragic fate, not necessarily death, but psychological disintegration and incarceration. Glaspell’s tragic heroines are outsiders, living in a world that thwarts their dreams to have a free life beyond the prescribed roles and social demands of house management, domesticity, and social propriety. This study applies the feminist theory of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, introduced in their seminal work The Madwoman in the Attic, to two of Glaspell’s major plays, namely Trifles and The Verge. It also aims at tracing the elements of the Restoration ‘she-tragedy’ in these plays to prove to what extent Glaspell is a master of this form of writing.

A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIT HEINTZMAN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Natural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries

AbstractIn the late eighteenth century, the Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort was renowned for its innovative veterinary education and for having one of the largest natural history and anatomy collections in France. Yet aside from a recent interest in the works of one particular anatomist, the school's history has been mostly ignored. I examine here the fame of the school in eighteenth-century travel literature, the historic connection between veterinary science and natural history, and the relationship between the school's hospital and its esteemed cabinet. Using the correspondence papers of veterinary administrators, state representatives and competing scientific institutions during the French Revolution, I argue that resource constraints and the management of anatomical and natural history specimens produced new disciplinary boundaries between natural history, veterinary medicine and human medicine, while reinforcing geographic divisions between the local and the foreign in the study of non-human animals. This paper reconstructs theAncien Régimereasoning that veterinary students would benefit from a global perspective on animality, and the Revolutionary government's rejection of that premise. Under republicanism, veterinary medicine became domestic.

scholarly journals Enteral fluid therapy in neonatal calves and features of commercially available electrolyte solutions in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela de Castro Bregadioli ◽  
Priscilla Fajardo Valente Pereira ◽  
Karina Keller Marques da Costa Flaiban ◽  
José Dantas Ribeiro Filho ◽  
Júlio Augusto Naylor Lisbôa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
North America ◽  
Fluid Therapy ◽  
Electrolyte Solutions ◽  
World Health ◽  
Acid Base ◽  
The World ◽  
Neonatal Calves ◽  
Health Organization

ABSTRACT: According to the World Health Organization, the development of orally replacement fluids and electrolytes was one of the most significant advances of the twentieth century, markedly reducing mortality from diarrheal children. In veterinary medicine, oral electrolyte solutions (OES) are routinely used to treat diarrheic neonatal calves in order to correct water, electrolyte and acid base imbalances. In North America, the use of OES is routine and there are at least 20 commercial alternatives. Use of OES has increased in recent years in Brazil, but just five commercial products are currently available. The OES should contain, in suitable concentrations, electrolytes, glucose and an alkalizing agent to ensure its therapeutic efficacy. This review aimed to address the therapeutic importance of OES for neonatal calves and to evaluate the compositions and characteristics of those commercially available in Brazil.

scholarly journals Application Research of Information Technology in Higher Vocational Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kexun Lian
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Application Research ◽  
Higher Vocational Education ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
New Era ◽  
Teaching Reform ◽  
Important Direction

Information technology plays a role in supplementing and sublimating the practical teaching of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary medicine in many vocational colleges in our country, which is an important direction of our teaching reform in the new era. Therefore, the thesis firstly explores the necessity of information technology in the teaching of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary medicine in higher vocational education, and then explores the application possibilities of information technology from all aspects of teaching in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary medicine, expecting to be helpful to the informatization process of vocational Animal Husbandry and Veterinary specialty.

scholarly journals Myths, Legends, and Apparitional Lesbians: Amy Lowell's Haunting Modernism

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-589
Author(s):  
Hannah Roche
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Modernist Poetry ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
Ted Hughes ◽  
Male Dominated

By the end of the twentieth century, Amy Lowell's poetry had been all but erased from modernism, with her name resurfacing only in relation to her dealings with Ezra Pound, her distant kinship with Robert Lowell, or her correspondence with D. H. Lawrence. The tale of how Pound rejected Lowell's Imagism, rebranding his movement as Vorticism and spurning the ‘Amygism’ of Lowell's Some Imagist Poets anthologies (1915–1917), has become something of a modernist myth. Recent critics have begun the project of re-evaluating and ultimately reinstating Lowell, but the extent of her contribution to modernist poetry and poetics – and her influence on other, more popular, twentieth-century writers – has not yet been acknowledged. This essay encourages readers to see the apparitional Lowell, both in the male-dominated world of modernism and in celebrated works by writers that followed. By drawing attention to the weighty impact of Lowell's poetry on Lawrence – and, later, on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – I provide compelling reasons not only to revisit Lowell but also to reassess those texts that are haunted by her presence.

scholarly journals Mapping the teaching of aquatic animal veterinary medicine in the European Union and European Free Trade Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. e000309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despoina Iatridou ◽  
Laura Pohl ◽  
Nancy De Briyne ◽  
Dušan Palić ◽  
Jimmy H Saunders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Aquatic Animal ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Trade Area

Aquatic animal production is the fastest growing food sector globally. Aquaculture and fisheries are very dynamic sectors in the EU and the number of ornamental aquarium pets is increasing. Veterinarians have a fundamental role to play by ensuring health and welfare of aquatic species, productivity and profitability of fish farming, public health and ecosystem conservation. This study investigates how the undergraduate curriculum prepares future veterinarians for such roles by analysing data from the 77 European veterinary education establishments based in EU and the European Free Trade Area. Over 95 per cent of these establishments incorporate teaching in aquatic animal veterinary medicine in their curriculum, while the great majority do so within the core curriculum. Almost half of the establishments provide teaching in aquatic animal veterinary medicine as separate subjects. Many establishments (>40 per cent) provide such training as elective option in their undergraduate curricula or as postgraduate opportunities to enhance Day One Competences. The veterinary education establishments integrating adequately aquatic animal veterinary medicine in their curriculum are evenly distributed in all regions of Europe. Veterinarians are trained and empowered by legislation to assess health of aquatic animals, to diagnose, to prescribe medicines, to notify for diseases and to ensure safe food for the consumers. Veterinary education establishments should encourage training of veterinarians to follow a career in aquatic animal veterinary medicine.

scholarly journals Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Opinion of the Legal Implication to Veterinary Medicine

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Pugliese ◽  
Eva Voslarova ◽  
Vito Biondi ◽  
Annamaria Passantino
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Veterinary Profession ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Legal Implication

The strengthening of the bond between humans and animals has changed the landscape of the veterinary profession. This has, in turn, led the legal system to assess damages in veterinary malpractice and liability cases more carefully, paying attention to the possibility of using clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to prove whether the defendant veterinarian contravened or not the standard of care. In this era of evidence-based veterinary medicine, CPGs are becoming an integral part of many aspects of veterinary practice, even if CPGs do not have the force of law and are situated halfway between ethical rules and legal requirements. Although guidelines have been used for several years, there seems to be a general lack of recognition of the medical and legal ramifications of CPGs for veterinarians. This creates ambiguity and inconsistency in the care that veterinary practitioners provide, compromises the care animals receive, and prevents the courts from assessing veterinarian competence in a systematic and rational way. On the basis of these considerations, this article discusses the legal implications of CPGs in veterinary medicine for dogs and cats and explores how the law may treat CPGs in the future. Redefining the CPGs should be a priority for veterinary profession. NOTE: The authors chose to use the terms “companion animal,” “pet,” and “small animal” interchangeably throughout this article, as all three are commonly in use and refer to the same animals (dogs and cats).

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