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dc.contributor | geovet@ucdavis.edu | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Davis, Diana K![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-21T07:27:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-21T07:27:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing Soga's remarkable trajectory, this paper helps to decolonize the history of veterinary medicine, long dominated by the ‘great deeds’ of a succession of white men, and only recently beginning to diversify. This sort of knowledge decolonization has been increasingly advocated by numerous scholars and a growing number of students globally. Dr Soga qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1886, after studying at the Royal (Dick's) Veterinary School in Edinburgh. Appointed Assistant Veterinary Surgeon for Cape Colony in 1889, he made pioneering contributions to veterinary toxicology and vaccination methods over the next decade. Soga was also one of the earliest to warn of the impending disaster of rinderpest, and he played an instrumental role in the containment and eventual eradication of this devastating disease. He provided essential help in communicating with indigenous South Africans about livestock diseases, although his feelings about his countrymen were sometimes conflicted. The processes of decolonization are complex, and frequently difficult, but the benefits are great. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0047 | en_US |
dc.format.extent | Online article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Davis, DK 2023., "Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian", Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Oct, pp. 1-24. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2023.0047 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1743-0178 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96101 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Royal Society of Publishing | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Authors Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_US |
dc.subject | Veterinarians | en_US |
dc.subject | Veterinary history | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Decolonization | en_US |
dc.subject | Rinderpest | en_US |
dc.subject | Ethnic group | en_US |
dc.subject | Veterinary medicine biographies | en_US |
dc.subject | Veterinary medicine | en_US |
dc.subject | Scotland | en_US |
dc.subject | Jotello Festiri Soga | en_US |
dc.subject | Poisonous plants | en_US |
dc.subject | Veterinary toxicology | en_US |
dc.subject | Lung-sickness vaccine | en_US |
dc.subject | African heritage | en_US |
dc.subject | Soga Ethnoveterinary Garden | en_US |
dc.subject | Cattle inoculation | en_US |
dc.subject | Nenta | en_US |
dc.subject | Royal Dick Veterinary College | en_US |
dc.subject | Family background | en_US |
dc.subject | Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons | en_US |
dc.subject | Cape Colony | en_US |
dc.subject | Pioneer | en_US |
dc.subject | History decolonization | en_US |
dc.subject | Jotello F Soga Library | en_US |
dc.title | Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |