Zoobiquity : what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing /

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara.

Zoobiquity : what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers. - First edition. - viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-291) and index.

Dr. House, meet Doctor Doolittle : 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.

In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings.

0307593487 9780307593481

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Diseases--Animal models.
Veterinary pathology.
Medicine, Comparative.
Animal health.
Pathology.
Physiology, Comparative.
Psychology, Comparative.
Pathology, Veterinary

RB125 / .N388 2012

636.089607

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