Health & Environment
Historical roots of One Health principles traced from Ashoka to Rudolf Virchow
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THE BRIEF
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In the second of his Major Rock Edicts from the third century BCE, Emperor Ashoka recorded providing medical care for both humans and animals.
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Ashoka's edicts demonstrated early state governance treating human, animal, and environmental health as an integrated responsibility.
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German physician Rudolf Virchow later introduced the term 'zoonosis' to emphasize that no dividing line should exist between animal and human medicine.