More-Than-One Health

Abstract

One Health is a global health approach that emphasises collaboration across disciplines in response to diseases. It has gained popularity in recent decades, with the most recent definition by One Health High Level Council (OHHLEP) being: “an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and ecosystems.” (Braverman, 2023, p. 80). According to Steve Hinchliffe, this human-animalenvironment triad premises on specific ontological commitments to a one-world metaphysics. His Foreword sets the stage for the volume’s contributions through the question: “What is gained and what might be lost when one adopts the One Health signature?” (Hinchliffe, 2023, p. xx).