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What Animals Can Teach Us About Health And The Science Of Healing
Vintage
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
320 pages ISBN: 0307477436 EAN: 9780307477439 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2012
An O,
The Oprah Magazine “Summer Reading” Pick Finalist,
2013 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in
Science Books
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.
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