Animal Suffering from Afar
This article traces the role of veterinarians in humanitarian action, focusing on two types of veterinary practice : the defense of animals against cruelty, and the surveillance of animals touched by epidemics. In particular, while we trace the extension of humanitarian action to animals as new types of innocent victims, we move from an exploration of humanitarianism as compassion to a study of new forms of science of the non-human, including veterinary forensic science, neuroscience, and immunology. Ultimately, we argue that these sciences are helping in the formation of new human-non-human collectives.