... began to settle, and the hunter-gatherer way of life was gradually supplanted by the tending of livestock and the tilling of land. Just why some of our forebears forsook the ways of old for aninherently ... century. Similarly, Offringa (1971, 1976, 1981, 1983) traces the emergence and institutionalisation of the veterinary profession in the Netherlands, drawing onsociological theories of professionalisation ... Disease and Human Society is based. This book is the product of both documentary and ethnographic data that were collected during the course of my doctoral research. Duringthe earliest phase of my...