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An anthropologist’s voice in a veterinarian’s noise : gearing up for new cultural realities
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Šterk, Karmen
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Brložnik, Maja
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Over the past three decades, the veterinary profession has faced a cultural shift towards postspeciesism that requires a reassessment of the foundations of the existing distinctions between human and non-human animals proclaimed by the speciesism paradigm, which represents institutionalized discrimination against species and recognizes only the subjectivity of humans. Based on ethnographic observations in anthropological fieldwork and using speciesism/postspeciesism distinction, we aimed to explain the main causes of small animal practitioners’ workrelated stress and apply humanistic knowledge to recommend ways to alleviate the negative effects of the work environment. The explanatory model of disease, illness, and sickness, the example of the concept of family, and the circumstances of the feminization of the veterinary profession are discussed to illustrate the divergence between speciesist naturalistic veterinary knowledge and the postspeciesist cultural framework and its consequences. By failing to accommodate the changing values towards animals and by failing to challenge the anthropocentric hierarchy of values, the speciesist rationale of the veterinary profession contributes to many of the problems faced by practicing veterinarians. The incorporation of a modern moralphilosophical mindset towards animals may not even be possible because veterinary science is subject to a paradigm that is irreversibly tied to institutional discrimination against species and defies reflection on veterinary science itself. However, the veterinary profession has a privileged position in establishing an alternative ontological thinking and an alternative conception of “animal life.” Anthropological knowledge was applied to anticipate further intervention of social and cultural sciences in the problems of small animal practitioners. Rather than further diversifying and increasing expectations towards veterinarians by expecting them to acquire additional skills, we propose another practitioner who can support, mediate, and enhance veterinary performance – the cultural anthropologist. With their deep knowledge of cultural differences and social dynamics, they can collaborate with veterinarians to act as a liaison between cultures, paradigms, and species.
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English
Keywords:
veterinary medicine
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small animals
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ethnography
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social and cultural anthropology
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veterinary anthropology
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medical anthropology
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speciesism
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postspeciesism
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Article
Typology:
1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:
FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
VF - Veterinary Faculty
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Published
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Publication date:
04.08.2023
Year:
2023
Number of pages:
Str. 01-11
Numbering:
Vol. 10, art. no. 1202606
PID:
20.500.12556/RUL-148363
UDC:
39:636.09
ISSN on article:
2297-1769
DOI:
10.3389/fvets.2023.1202606
COBISS.SI-ID:
161601795
Publication date in RUL:
18.08.2023
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Title:
Frontiers in veterinary science
Shortened title:
Front. vet. sci.
Publisher:
Frontiers Media S.A.
ISSN:
2297-1769
COBISS.SI-ID:
3969402
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Slovenian
Keywords:
veterina
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male živali
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etnografija
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socialna in kulturna antropologija
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veterinarska antropologija
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medicinska antropologija
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specizem
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postspecizem
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