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What Animals Can Teach Us About Health And The Science Of Healing
Knopf
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
320 pages ISBN: 0307593487 EAN: 9780307593481 Kindle: B006NKL9F6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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 fainting spells, sexually transmitted
diseases? Do they suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder,
bulimia, addiction?
The answers were astonishing.
Dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer. Koalas catch
chlamydia. Reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic
mushrooms. Stallions self-mutilate. Gorillas experience
clinical depression.
Joining forces with science
journalist Kathryn Bowers, Natterson-Horowitz employs
fascinating case studies and meticulous scholarship to
present 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. Delving into evolution, anthropology,
sociology, biology, veterinary science, and zoology, they
break down the walls between disciplines, redefining the
boundaries of medicine.
Zoobiquity explores
how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose,
treat, and heal patients of all species. Both authoritative
and accessible, offering cutting-edge research through
captivating narratives, this provocative book encourages us
to see our essential connection to all living beings.
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