Zoobiquity The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health

Name: Zoobiquity The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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ISBN: 9780307477439

ISBN-10: 0307477436

ISBN-13: 9780307477439

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Authors: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers

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In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians called by a different name—and treated in innovative ways.This remarkable medical parallel launched Natterson-Horowitz on a journey of discovery that reshaped her entire approach to medicine. She began to search for other connections between the human and animal worlds: Do animals get breast cancer, anxiety-induced…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Authors' Note



Dr. House, Meet Doctor Dolittle


Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine



The Feint of Heart


Why We Pass Out



Jews, Jaguars, and Jurassic Cancer


New Hope for an Ancient Diagnosis



Roar-gasm


An Animal Guide to Human Sexuality



Zoophoria


Getting High and Getting Clean



Scared to Death


Heart Attacks in the Wild



Fat Planet


Why Animals Get Fat and How They Get Thin



Grooming Gone Wild


Pain, Pleasure, and the Origins of Self-Injury



Fear of Feeding


Eating Disorders in the Animal Kingdom



The Koala and the Clap


The Hidden Power of Infection



Leaving the Nest


Animal Adolescence and the Risky Business of Growing Up



Zoobiquity


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index