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.
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New York :
A.A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.