Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Do animals overeat? Get breast cancer? Have fainting spells? Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as her human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine. Beginning with the above questions, she began informally researching every affliction that she encountered in humans to learn whether it happened with animals, too. And usually, it did: dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer, koalas can catch chlamydia, reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms, stallions self-mutilate, and gorillas experience clinical depression. Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers have dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity. Here, they present a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: April 09, 2013

ISBN: 0307477436

ISBN 13: 9780307477439

Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Do animals overeat? Get breast cancer? Have fainting spells? Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as her human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine. Beginning with the above questions, she began informally researching every affliction that she encountered in humans to learn whether it happened with animals, too. And usually, it did: dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer, koalas can catch chlamydia, reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms, stallions self-mutilate, and gorillas experience clinical depression. Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers have dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity. Here, they present a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: April 09, 2013

ISBN: 0307477436

ISBN 13: 9780307477439

More books from Kathryn Bowers

Wildhood: the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Wildhood: Discovering the Animal Nature of Human Adolescence

3.7/5 ( ratings)

共病时代：动物疾病与人类健康的惊人联系

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?