Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
New York : Knopf, 2012.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
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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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Diseases -- Animal models.
Veterinary pathology.
Medicine, Comparative.
Animal health.
Diseases -- Animal models.
Pathology.
Veterinary pathology.
Physiology, Comparative.
Psychology, Comparative.
Diseases -- Animal models.
Veterinary pathology.
Medicine, Comparative.
Animal health.
Diseases -- Animal models.
Pathology.
Veterinary pathology.
Physiology, Comparative.
Psychology, Comparative.
ISBN:
9780307958389
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