” Despite their midpoint to the operation of modern accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has hardly ever, if ever, been the focus of an important analysis in the social science and humanities. Drawing on thorough interviews and observations of zoo and fish tank vets in Europe and The United States And Canada, this book highlights the recent transformation that has taken place in the zoo veterinarian profession throughout a time of ecological crisis, and what these changes can teach us about our rapidly changing world. Zoo vets, Braverman advises us with a wink, have “gone wild.” Initially an individual welfare-centered profession, these experts are progressively interested in the sustainability of wild animal populations and with environmental health. In this sense, the story of zoo vets “going wild”- in their subjects of care, their inspirations, and their ethical standards, along with in their professional practices and scientific techniques-is likewise a story about zoo animals gone wild, wild animals encroaching the zoo, and, more typically, a wild world that is ending up being “zoo-ified.” Such changes have challenged existing norms of veterinary practice. Checking out the regulative landscape that governs the work of zoo and aquarium vets, Braverman traverses the space between the difficult and soft sciences and between human beings and nonhumans. At the intersection of animal research studies, socio-legal research studies, and Science and Innovation Research studies, this book will appeal not just to those thinking about zoos and in animal welfare, but also to scholars in the posthumanities”–
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