Zoobiquity What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing

Name: Zoobiquity What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing
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ISBN: 9780307593481

ISBN-10: 0307593487

ISBN-13: 9780307593481

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers

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In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings, delving into an array of disciplines--evolution, anthropology, sociology, biology, cutting-edge medicine, and zoology--to provide a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind."Zoobiquity" is the term the authors have coined to refer to a new, species-spanning approach to health. After being called in to consult on a case of heart failure in a monkey at the Los…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430



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