Zoobiquity : what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780307593481 (hbk.) :
- ISBN: 0307593487 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: viii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-291) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RB 125 .N388 2012 | 30775305440365 | General Collection | Available | - |