Zoobiquity what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing

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.

Main Author: Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara.
Other Authors: Bowers, Kathryn.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Table of 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.