Zoobiquity
Subtitle: the astonishing connection between human and animal health
By: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. and Kathryn Bowers
Contributors: Bowers, Kathryn, author
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780385670623
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Comparative Medicine; Diseases; Animal models; Human-animal relationships; Veterinary pathology; Médecine comparée; Maladies; Modèles animaux; Relations homme-animal; Pathologie vétérinaire; Pathology; Animal Disease Models; Veterinary Pathology; Comparative Physiology; Comparative Psychology
Description: "In 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz started researching her patients' afllictions to find out if other animals were also affected. Astonishingly, she discovered that animals to indeed faint, overeat, and get cancers, just as we do, although doctors and veterinarians often treated similar conditions in vastly different ways. Perhaps healthcare would improve if the two disciplines shared new discoveries and tools? The authors dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity. With this revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about ourselves, they explore how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients lf all species."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Originally published: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, ©2012.

Original hard cover edition has subtitle: What animals can teach us about being human.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Dr. House, meet Dr. Doolittle : redefining the boundaries of medicine; title: The feint of heart : why we pass out; title: Jews and jaguars, and Jurassic cancer : new hope for an ancient diagnosis; title: Roar-gasm : an animal guide to human sexuality; title: Zoophoria : getting high and getting clean; title: Scared to death : heart attacks in the wild; title: Fat planet : why animals get fat and how they get thin; title: Grooming gone wild : pain, pleasure, and the origins of self-injury; title: Fear of feeding : eating disorders in the animal kingdom; title: The koala and the clap : the hidden power of infection; title: Leaving the nest : animal adolescence and the risky business of growing up; title: Zoobiquity.