TY - JOUR
T1 - Giving Meaning to Action and Research: Notes on the ‘One Health’
Approach from a Sociological Perspective
AU - BALDUZZI, GIACOMO
AU - Favretto, A. R.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach. Since the mid-2000s and even more since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health
scholars and policymakers have been paying an increasing attention to the One Health approach. The authors retrace the different reconstructions on the origins and meanings of the One Health approach also by referring to a case study jointly
conducted by sociologists and veterinary epidemiologists in the context of dairy cattle farms located in the provinces of Turin and Cuneo. According to Beck (1992), in risk societies, the division of labour between science, politics and economics breaks
apart and must be renegotiated. Moreover, according to Pierre Bourdieu, One Health is understandable, in sociological terms, as a social field, that is arenas where actors’ relations stem from the different positions in the field and from their different
dispositions (habitus). Dominant groups are also recognizable. In this perspective OH takes shape as a peculiar form of real (or possible) utopia: that of using the network of connections by which we grasp the risks to formulate an integrated strategy
able at promoting health from a global and systemic standpoint and preventing the potential for irreversible destruction.
AB - The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach. Since the mid-2000s and even more since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health
scholars and policymakers have been paying an increasing attention to the One Health approach. The authors retrace the different reconstructions on the origins and meanings of the One Health approach also by referring to a case study jointly
conducted by sociologists and veterinary epidemiologists in the context of dairy cattle farms located in the provinces of Turin and Cuneo. According to Beck (1992), in risk societies, the division of labour between science, politics and economics breaks
apart and must be renegotiated. Moreover, according to Pierre Bourdieu, One Health is understandable, in sociological terms, as a social field, that is arenas where actors’ relations stem from the different positions in the field and from their different
dispositions (habitus). Dominant groups are also recognizable. In this perspective OH takes shape as a peculiar form of real (or possible) utopia: that of using the network of connections by which we grasp the risks to formulate an integrated strategy
able at promoting health from a global and systemic standpoint and preventing the potential for irreversible destruction.
KW - Animal Health and Welfare · Dairy cattle farms · Risk Society · Utopia · Bourdieu’s field theory
KW - Animal Health and Welfare · Dairy cattle farms · Risk Society · Utopia · Bourdieu’s field theory
UR - https://iris.uniupo.it/handle/11579/170889
U2 - 10.1057/s41301-023-00383-2
DO - 10.1057/s41301-023-00383-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1011-6370
VL - 66
SP - 226
EP - 232
JO - Development
JF - Development
IS - 3-4
ER -