ABSTRACT
Despite their centrality to the modern zoo’s function, surprisingly little has been written about zoo veterinarians. Wildlife veterinarians have been around for a while, to be sure. While meddling in expert worlds is certainly a skill that requires care, meddling in expert worlds that deal with the human–animal nexus demands, additionally, that the people pay close attention to the epistemic materialities as well as to the temporal genealogies and ontological classifications that pertain to these specific lifeworlds. Although it is strongly situated in animal studies, Zoo Veterinarians is certainly not written from the animal’s perspective. How, precisely, to bridge the interdisciplinary silos has been the challenge of One Health, which is explicitly, and enthusiastically, inclusive.
