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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health

Barbara Natterson Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers

What can doctors learn about human illness, from fainting to cancer, by looking at how animals get sick and cope?

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Author
Barbara Natterson Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers

Why read it

  • You will see human health problems, such as heart attacks and eating disorders, as ones other animals also face
  • You will learn how the way a vet thinks about illness can shed light on conditions that puzzle doctors
  • You will understand why risky teenage behavior may be part of growing up in other species too

Who it is for

  • A parent puzzled by a teenager's appetite for risk
  • A doctor or nurse who likes ideas from outside medicine
  • A pet owner curious how animals and people get sick alike

Contents

  1. Authors’ Note
  2. ONE Dr. House, Meet Doctor Dolittle
  3. Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine
  4. TWO The Feint of Heart
  5. Why We Pass Out
  6. THREE Jews, Jaguars, and Jurassic Cancer
  7. New Hope for an Ancient Diagnosis
  8. FOUR Roar-gasm
  9. An Animal Guide to Human Sexuality
  10. FIVE Zoophoria
  11. Getting High and Getting Clean
  12. SIX Scared to Death
  13. Heart Attacks in the Wild
  14. SEVEN Fat Planet
  15. Why Animals Get Fat and How They Get Thin
  16. EIGHT Grooming Gone Wild
  17. Pain, Pleasure, and the Origins of Self-Injury
  18. NINE Fear of Feeding
  19. Eating Disorders in the Animal Kingdom
  20. TEN The Koala and the Clap
  21. The Hidden Power of Infection
  22. ELEVEN Leaving the Nest
  23. Animal Adolescence and the Risky Business of Growing Up
  24. TWELVE Zoobiquity
  25. Works Consulted
  26. Prologue

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