OCW One Health, 2008
G. Kaufman, DVM
Tufts University
1. Sustainable Agriculture Class 1
1.1. Overarching exercise and presentations
What is Health? Panel discussion on parameters of Human, Animal and Environmental Health - What is "One Health" ?
1.2. Class Activity
Break into groups and consider the "problem"
1.3. Assignments
1.3.1. Preparatory Reading for Class 1:
Virchow RC. Excerpts from Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia
Starr, P. The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty, in The Social Transformation of American Medicine (pages 1-29)
Gittleman, S. Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts, 1976-2002, A New View of Health, pages 107-112.
1.3.1. Reading for next week:
- Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point, The New Yorker, June 3, 1996.
VUE map tutorial
Veronica Boix Mansilla – Interdisciplinary work at the Frontier, Issues in Integrative Studies, No. 24, pp. 1-31 (2006)
1.3.2. eJournal assignment:
Think about the draft problem statement and suggest revision(s)
Which discipline would you most like to represent and give reasons (250 words max)


