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Zoobiquity : what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers.

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara. (Author). Bowers, Kathryn. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307593481 (hbk.) :
ISBN: 0307593487 (hbk.)
Physical Description: viii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.

Content descriptions

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.