Zoobiquity
Subtitle: what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing
By: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
Contributors: Bowers, Kathryn
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781620909799
Subjects: Diseases; Animal models; Veterinary pathology; Comparative Medicine; Animal Disease Models; Veterinary Pathology; Maladies; Modèles animaux; Pathologie vétérinaire; Médecine comparée
Description: 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.
Notes: A Borzoi book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authors' note; title: Dr. House, meet Doctor Doolittle: redefining the boundaries of medicine; title: The feint of heart: why we pass out; title: Jews, 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; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index.