More than one world, more than one health

This chapter focuses on emerging infectious diseases, and the result is a tendency to attempt to format the lives of food animals in particular ways that conform to global health security. The One World One Health (OWOH) concept was most readily taken up within or at the edges of national and global animal and public health bodies where practitioners could see the advantages of working on health and disease problems in ways that defied established disciplinary and institutional boundaries. International agencies, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), have traditionally tended to act within their medical/health, veterinary/trade and agriculture/development domains respectively. The late cultural geographer Denis Cosgrove wrote of the imagery and the implicit geographical imagination of the Apollo space missions in the 1960s and 1970s.