The Best Veterinary Books

Within veterinary medicine, there’s always new information, concepts and practices to be explored, whether you’re a practicing vet or a student. High-quality veterinary books for ongoing guidance, new study materials and the latest practices are essential to keep up-to-date and knowledgeable. Read on and explore our wide range of veterinary books and textbooks or click the following to jump directly to:

• Veterinary books for working with small animals
• Veterinary books for working with farm animals
• Veterinary books for working with horses
• Veterinary books for enhancing your general practice
• Veterinary books for working with exotic animals
• Veterinary books for Immunology

Veterinary books for working with small animals

• Emergency and critical care medicine are the fastest-growing fields of veterinary practice and fundamental for the veterinary GP, nurse or trainee! Learn how to manage more common emergency and critical care conditions in clinical practice in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine.

• Understanding clinical medicine for animals requires more than just up-to-date informational text to teach. Gain access to comprehensive small animal clinical medicine alongside a wealth of relevant illustrated material in Michael Schaer, Frederic Gaschen and Stuart Walton’s thoroughly updated 4th edition of Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat.


• Concise Textbook of Small Animal Handling condenses the most important aspects of small animal handling in a portable, durable means of learning on the ground. Spiral-bound for practical use at the animal’s side, the book instructs on safe and humane handling of species encountered in both small animal practice and laboratory settings


• Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion pets right now. Health and Welfare of Brachycephalic (Flat-faced) Companion Animals will equip veterinary professionals, animal welfare scientists, breeders and owners with a fuller story about brachycephalic health and welfare, from both the clinical, ethical and social perspective.


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Veterinary books for working with farm animals

• Providing veterinary students with a brand-new approach to large animal medicine, Illustrated Textbook of Farm Animal Clinical Diagnosis describes the detailed examination of each organ system achievable on the farm. It explores technologies such as rapid ultrasound examination and radiography, illustrated via unique images and video recordings. Packed with imagery, the text distils the essential information in a logical, easily accessible way to aid diagnosis. Small and spiral-bound, the book offers a lifeline for veterinary students during their extra-mural studies (EMS) placements.


• Current livestock production systems and certain husbandry practices can sometimes create challenging entomological concerns that veterinarians must face. Confront these problems and their solutions with Veterinary Entomology: Livestock and Companion Animals.


• Billions of dollars are spent worldwide to prevent coccidiosis in livestock — especially poultry. Explore how internationally-renowned scientists are combating this problem in Coccidiosis in Livestock, Poultry, Companion Animals, and Humans.


• Treating any animal can be a physically-challenging endeavor, but farm veterinarians must be experts in animal handling and physical restraint for animals across a wide range of sizes and behaviors. Check out the best methods and proper techniques in Animal Handling and Physical Restraint.

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Veterinary books for working with horses

• Scentwork is key to forming a human-animal bond with domesticated horses. Learn how you can use this research to enhance the behavior and welfare of horses in Rachaël Draaisma’s Scentwork for Horses.


• Learning new ways to communicate with horses can help equine professionals and veterinarians better learn to understand and assess their wellbeing. Read how to use physical signals as you practice with Rachaël Draaisma’s Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses.


• For a deeper understanding of the internal workings of the horse, Essentials of Clinical Anatomy of the Equine Locomotor System by acclaimed equine author Jean-Marie Denoix provides a detailed Atlas showing the position and relationships of the bones, joints, muscles, nerves and blood vessels that make up each region of the forelimb, vertebral column and hindlimb.

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Veterinary books for enhancing your general practice

 

• Narrative Medicine in Veterinary Practice: Improving Client Communication, Patient Care, and Veterinary Well-being is the first guide to Veterinary Narrative Medicine, a cutting-edge approach in human medicine with multiple applications in veterinary medicine. The text combines the latest research with numerous real-world examples and practical techniques to improve client communication, patient care, and veterinary well-being.


• Creating Wellbeing and Building Resilience in the Veterinary Profession aims to help veterinary caregivers increase self-efficacy and sustainability in their mission to support animal health around the world. Integrating real-life stories from a range of veterinary caregivers with evidence-based theory, practical activities, discussion and reflection points, and insights drawn from the author’s own experiences, the book empowers veterinarians by showing that they have the ability and the control to choose a healthier way forward for themselves and for their profession.


• Learning Animals: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Becoming a Veterinarian delves into the controversies and challenges of today’s veterinary education system, asking “What do veterinarians learn in veterinary school? How do their experiences during those four years shape their perceptions of animals? How do the structures, curriculum, and pedagogy of veterinary college create and influence these experiences?” A thought-provoking read for veterinarians and education scholars alike.

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Veterinary books for working with exotic animals

• There are numerous infectious diseases that can affect reptiles — so why not study them all in one handy textbook? Read about every aspect of veterinary anatomy, pathophysiology, and differential diagnosis of infectious diseases affecting reptiles in Infectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles.


• The second volume covers Noninfectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles, giving you a thorough understanding of reptile disease. It delves into the controversies and challenges of today’s veterinary education system, asking “What do veterinarians learn in veterinary school? How do their experiences during those four years shape their perceptions of animals? How do the structures, curriculum and pedagogy of veterinary college create and influence these experiences?” A thought-provoking read for veterinarians and education scholars alike.


• A decade after the publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology to endure as the most comprehensive review of reptile venoms on the market.


• The revised, updated and expanded edition of A Colour Atlas of Comparative Veterinary Haematology is bursting with high-quality images to aid the identification of blood cells and haemoparasites in different species. It will assist veterinarians in the identification of normal and abnormal blood cells and in understanding the structural differences of blood cells between the various taxa within the Animal Kingdom.

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Veterinary books for immunology

Unlike typical medical practitioners, veterinary professionals need to be experts in anatomy across different species of animals — a challenging task to undertake. Discover the best guides for animal clinical immunology:

Veterinary Immunology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Examine the immunological concerns of large and small animals and then learn to apply them to the disease process and clinical practice in Veterinary Immunology.

The new edition presents expanded information on commonly used diagnostic test procedures and discusses newly arising diseases such as bovine neonatal pancytopenia.

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Clinical Immunology of the Dog and Cat, Second Edition

Excited to focus on the immunology of dogs and cats? Dig into immune-related diseases with full-color illustrations in Clinical Immunology of the Dog and Cat.

The second edition details the manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of immune-related disease in the dog and cat. It is illustrated throughout in full color, to show and explain to the reader as clearly as possible the complicated principles of disease and immunodiagnostic tests, supported by clinical cases, gross and histopathology, cytology, hematology, immunohistochemistry and other immunological tests.

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